December 19, 2003
By Richard Thieme William Gibson’s Neuromancer is known to many because of one word, “cyberspace,” a fulcrum of a word around which a whole new world has coalesced. Equally memorable, though, is an image of the cyberjunkie Case jacking into the Dixie Flatline for the first time. The Flatline, a.k.a. McCoy Pauley, is a firmware […]
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December 15, 2003
The Episcopalians? They are us Assessing the ordination of Gene Robinson and responses to it By RICHARD THIEME Just as California is often said to be the leading edge of American popular culture so that what shows up there will soon show up in Pittsburgh, the Episcopal church often serves as a bellwether for Catholic […]
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