The Zeitgeist

So, suddenly the NY Times decides its a good idea to put comments from random readers on its front page… don’t we have a letters to the editor section for stuff like this..?
BTW, I don’t think the comment from the “pro-Gore” side should be on the front page either. My parents, who [...]

Tags: bias, Journalism, New York Times, smear

Just saw an eye-opening snippet on YouTube called The Miniature Earth which brings into perspective a lot of the world’s problems from the point of view of a “100 person” earth.      With all the insanity on this planet, this quick little piece is a kick in the head about how much time, energy and attention [...]

Tags: action, activism, Politics, poverty, social responsibility

This moronic kerfuffle over Ahmadinejad’s rant at Columbia has jumped the shark. Now, both Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and the NY State / NYC Governments want to punish Columbia University by pulling their funding and through other censures and sanctions. Hmmmm…. Well, well, well, remember this…?
Congress shall make no law respecting an [...]

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
–Edmund Burke
A student, asking a question of John Kerry during a post-speech Q&A session at the University of Florida is TASERED for asking a question about impeaching George Bush, and John Kerry stands by and does NOTHING. Naomi Wolf delivers [...]

The NYTimes has killed of their ill-considered “Times Select” service (dubbed a “paywall” by most observers). Thanks goodness, I say: About freakin’ time!
What was shocking to me about Times Select was how clear it was that the NYTimes management just didn’t get the idea that putting its single most valuable [...]

Paul Saffo predicts the end of the US as we know it “by the middle of this century.” In this short YouTube snippet he briefly explains why the rise of City States (think: “Singapore” but hopefully with civil liberties) that are independent socio-economic zones are the future. It’s an interesting outtake from a clearly longer [...]

(with apologies to my old friend Ted, who used to say that whenever he heard Newt spew his garbage…)

By now Newt’s absolute hatred for both Freedom and America have been played and replay all over the airwaves and the blogosphere, but in the vein of fighting “bad speech” with “good speech,” I’d like to continue to pummel (rhetorically, of course) the disgraced ethically impaired ex-Speaker, Serial Liar and Serial Adulterer with some more ideas that probably won’t penetrate his thick and empty skull, but probably will resonate with most Americans who cherish their freedoms and love their country…

What’s the Value of Privacy? Everything.
“A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your [...]

I am glad to see that Doc Searls was interested enough in my recent blog entry to revisit an old topic of Internet access and corporate control. At the end of his commentary he wonders if with all the depressing news he’s insane to be be optimistic. I don’t think so, at [...]

In next week’s issue (available online now) of <a href=”http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester”> The Nation</a>, Jeff Chester has a peice on the upcoming Balkanization plans for the Internet, courtesy of the phone/media companies.
According to Chester, “<em>Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing “platinum,” “gold” and “silver” levels of Internet access [...]