The following is a Facebook post from NC Senator Josh Stein. Senate Finance Committee Chair Bob Rucho flouted the democratic process yesterday to ram an anti-clean tech bill through committee. We considered […]
Hold Rupert Murdoch to account. But go no further.
A goodly number of Murdoch’s newspapers run at a loss. This isn’t because he’s a bad businessman, it’s because of the industry. His competitors are doing worse. However, Murdoch loves newspapers and […]
The Fourth four years later: Nothing’s changed
As I predicted four years ago on the Fourth of July, little has changed. This year’s fireworks and barbecues offer only a brief respite from the problems of the nation, how they […]
Cyber warriors race to Mars
NASA and its spooky Sith-lord counterpart, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, are teaming up to achieve the impossible: interplanetary colonialism. DARPA, known for its role in developing such technologies as the […]
Trains, planes, and government deals
A reader responding to my last article pointed out that increasing exports means selling something overseas that we make here. In January 2004, after three years of the George W. Bush administration, […]
South Africa's assault on freedom and property – should anyone in the rest of the world care?
“Instead of standing aggressively behind the status quo, dressed in the cloak of the fourth estate, they need to talk more about responsibility, more about the importance of ethics, more about improvement […]
WordsDay: Merchants of Doubt
What do the following things all have in common: tobacco safety and the dangers of secondhand smoke, the Strategic Defense Initiative, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and the recent attacks […]
You chose it, your politicians arranged it and businesses delivered it. Who's responsible again?
On 31 May 2005, the US Supreme Court overturned accounting firm Arthur Andersen’s conviction for obstruction of justice. It would be a pyrrhic victory as, by then, a company which once employed […]
Drive-by: That apology to BP
You know, that apology… “I’m speaking totally for myself, I’m not speaking for the Republican party … but I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday,” Barton said. He called […]
Who should be held responsible? BP, Sovereignty, Personhood and the Corporation – Part 3
Not everyone can be Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. We would all love to be the person who invented the microchip or founded WalMart. We can’t be. It may be that we […]
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