Internet kill switch bill gets a makeover
Internet kill switch bill gets a makeover. Just one more shining example of how our representatives don’t know jack about how the web works or why it’s important. (via @matro)
Tag Archives: conflict
Idiot Nation, Idiot Press
The Daily Kos goes after Politico for the way that it handled Palin’s claim over the health care plan: Seriously? Seriously? Yes, seriously. It falls to Politico to take a story about a national figure making up wholesale a crooked and ridiculous story about how Democratic… Continue reading →
Sullivan: “The Revolution Will Be Twittered”
One of the smartest things I’ve read today about the growing disturbance in Iran comes from Andrew Sullivan who writes: That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so swiftly is a sign of the times. It reveals in Iran what the… Continue reading →
Dowd, gender, and a horrible Guardian article
With the recent news that Maureen Dowd of the New York Times plagiarized Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo there have understandably been a slew of article about the topic. Unfortunately, a columnist at the usually stellar Guardian writes this: Dowd, with her valley-girl accent,… Continue reading →
Finally, honest journalism
I’m sure that Jon Stewart’s interview with Jim Cramer has been written about elsewhere, but I wanted to share my own thoughts on the matter. If you haven’t seen the video, then you really need to so it’s embedded below: http://www.hulu.com/embed/_3TIApx3ymwKbAfZnz-MKA First and foremost, all the… Continue reading →
Alan Keyes and Obama
This is just weird, and I’m not even entirely sure what to say. Alan Keyes, a conservative who lost to Obama in the 2004 Illinois Senate race, describes Obama as a man who is a communist, usurper, and as one who advocates infanticide. The L.A.… Continue reading →
U.S. and North Korea
One of the things that frustrates me most about the United States and it’s foreign policy (under Clinton, Bush, and now Obama) is the ridiculous hypocrisy that’s pervasive. This comes from an article on the BBC: Referring to speculation Pyongyang was preparing to test-fire a long-range… Continue reading →
Barney Frank Speaks Up
Rep. Barney Frank speaks up to a Republican who claims that President Obama’s stimulus package is just a way to disguise the largest government spending bill in history. http://www.youtube.com/v/mSw3QqSF_zU&hl=en&fs=1 Good for him, and I wish more politicians in our country would say things like this… Continue reading →
Removing the filibuster
In an article the The Atlantic Matthew Yglesias writes that: Democrats no doubt see that more clearly today. Since 2006, when they won majorities in both the House and the Senate, their approval ratings have plummeted, in large part because moderates and liberals have noticed… Continue reading →
Foucault and Punishment
In “Discipline and Punish” he writes: It was as if the punishment was thought to equal, if not exceed, in savagery the crime itself, to accustom the spectators to a ferocity from which one wished to divert them, to show them the frequency of crime,… Continue reading →