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...Voting Task Force released a report that recommended against Internet voting from home because of security risks. We've witnessed the way that recent cyberattacks that all but crippled major websites; a similar assault on an official election website could easily bring the gears of reelection grinding to a chaotic halt. Do the benefits of increased enfranchisement really outweigh potential computer glitches that could call the validity of the entire process to question? Are we willing to turn voting over to a medium whose security is so infamously simple to circumvent that we would have to worry about hackers tampering...
...victim said the chaotic circumstances surrounding the crime made it difficult for him to make a positive identification...
...admirable that Hamid maintains measured prose and restraint--it would have been easy, especially in the more dramatic scenes and the chaotic later chapters, to let the narrative go berserk. Instead we get to watch lunacy come in careful and slow streams, and the effect is wonderful. None of the prose is brilliant, though it is never dull...
...times desperately--to find an explanation for the moral outrages of his time. With his classical education shaping his intellectual proclivities, he cannot shake the vestigial Enlightenment belief in an underlying order to a coherent universe. Maumort is a man of the 19th century trying to understand a chaotic and morally perverse modern world...
Unfortunately, this best-of only demonstrates that the Pumpkins are past-heavy. The first single off Machina, "Stand Inside Your Love," pales in comparison to these efforts. Mere noise is what the Pumpkins seem to put out now, whereas 1991-1998 is a chaotic but ultimately ordered mix of longing and altered grunge states. While alternative music may not have truly died, the loss of the innovative past, even within the Smashing Pumpkins themselves, should still be mourned...