Where the Patriot Act falls short
I hate to sound cynical, but isn’t it a sweet deal for Senators that they blocked the unreformed Patriot Act last year, thereby seeming to be on the side of civil liberties, but are now set to pass it almost unchanged, thereby staying on the Administration’s good side? The bill still lacks basic protections for [...]
Beware the Unitarian Jihad
For all those sick of fundamentalism of all sorts, check out the Unitarian Jihad. Long live the revolution! Technorati tags: humor | humour | religion | politics | Unitarian | Unity |
The blog is dead; long live the blog
The Politburo Diktat has an interesting look at The Post-Election Blogosphere Purge, talking about how prominent bloggers are regrouping and even resigning after the election. Basically blogs have been running on political discussion for a while, so what do bloggers talk about? We’ll find something. Surely, we’ll see more “cat blogging”, a term which I [...]
California bans insecure voting machines
California’s Secretary of State has banned the insecure e-voting machines that Diebold tinkered with after certification for the last election. California now requires that voters have the option to vote on paper, and has required a paper trail for the e-voting machines. A giant step forward! Time to lobby the other 49 Secretaries of State, [...]
Run, Jerry, Run
I knew that Jerry Springer had once been mayor of Cincinatti. What I didn’t know is that he’s … well … really, really good. I’d vote for him in a heartbeat, for anything he was running for. Maybe I’m just crazy, but listen to this episode of This American Life. They have a 31 minute [...]
The Blogsphere: Progressive Echo Chamber?
I don’t think I’d agree with the assertion that “bloggers rely almost exclusively on well established, credible sources for their information,” judging from all of the things I found about the Federal Reserve Bank, but The Blogosphere: Progressive Echo Chamber? makes some good points that I’ve been musing about for some time. Basically, with conservatives [...]
What Cheney bribery investigation?
Well, as a regular listener to Democracy Now, Free Speech Radio News and the like on WMNF, I already knew that an official within the French government has initiated an investigation of “allegations that Halliburton, subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, and a French company together paid $180 million in illegal commissions to government officials during [...]
History of the blog
Wayne Hubert’s Blog Business World is a great resource for … well … blog business, but I’m still laughing (and groaning) over Blog History: The Real Story.