Hang your pitchforks on a nearby peg?
Big media tech journalist David Pogue posted about the enormous SOPA/PIPA protests that potentially killed the bills for now, but probably not forever — these bills themselves are the successors to the failed COICA legislation from 2010, and it may not be long before language like this shows up again… so keep those pitchforks handy [...]
For #SOPA Blackout day: a challenge to make things better
Today, many important websites are “going dark” to protest the anti-piracy bills working their way through the US Congress. I’m joining in this protest, because I think the bills would “break” the Internet as we know it, as the only medium known to humanity that could enable virtually anyone to access speech published by virtually [...]
Today is American Censorship Day
Proposed legislation in the US Congress (Called the PROTECT IP Act or short title Stop Online Piracy Act) would allow corporations to take down whole websites they deem are “dedicated to infringement” prior to any court order. Advertisers would be forced to cancel contracts in advance of any court hearing. I believe in free speech, [...]
My goals, for posterity.
I just updated my LinkedIn profile for the first time in forever. They asked me to put up a summary of my goals, so I wrote this. I’ll post it here as well to look back on some years down the line. I will certainly specialize in one particular area, but for now my goals [...]
Can Democrats Change and chew gum at the same time?
When I first heard the kerfuffle about the “Ground Zero Mosque,” I figured it would blow right over. Lower Manhattan is a big place, and there are plenty of establishments within a half dozen stone’s throws from Ground Zero. But American intolerance for Islam always does seem to sneak up on me. The story just [...]
The Liberal plan for economic growth
I keep seeing Christopher Hayes’ “Deficits of Mass Destruction” article from The Nation pushed among my contacts. This isn’t a surprise, because I follow the magazine’s editor Katrina vandenHeuvel on Twitter. But now it also popped into my email from MoveOn, the progressive lobbying group. It’s an example to me of the failure of the Democrats [...]
The Republican side of the Table
I watched Bill Maher’s show and the “overtime” extended discussion from Friday (Guests: Bill Frist, Jon Meacham, Rachel Maddow, Queen Noor, Oliver Stone so you know it’ll be a heckuva debate). Bill Frist’s point on health reform that Republicans didn’t have a place at the table on reform and so they would be justified in [...]
Oregon Republicans-No room for the environment?
I watched the replay of KATU’s Republican gubernatorial debate recently. The stage was packed with nine candidates vying for the chance to challenge Kitzhaber or Bradbury in this fall’s general election. Their answers to a question about what the governor’s role in climate change left me wondering: Several candidates’ main response to the global warming [...]
What is the effect of government competition on the health care market?
I was recently asked to describe how the proposed government competition in the health care market (represented by the “public option” would affect health care costs. I wrote the following to illustrate that the issue is not a simple question of free market vs. government control. Theoretically competition would encourage private insurers to reduce their [...]
Transparency, Objectivity and News Curation
What is the value of a journalism outlet that abandons objectivity? Eric Odom, founder of American Liberty Alliance (ALA), the group that launched and organized the tea party movement across the country, announced Friday what he calls a movement-minded news portal and his answer to the the Huffington Post. Read more at Dawn Teo’s blog [...]
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