By Martin Bosworth The accessing of private passport-based travel data of all three Presidential candidates by contractors working for the State Department has finally galvanized Capitol Hill to address the issue of […]
Privacy vs. technology, freedom vs. convenience: it’s only going to get worse
Item: Citizens are concerned about online privacy and security. According to a new report from USC’s Center for the Digital Future, “Sixty-one percent of adult Americans said they were very or extremely […]
Microsoft, Google and the joy of a competitorless world
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, believes that a Yahoo / Microsoft tie-up would be awful for the Internet. Schmidt issued the vague sequitur that we should all beware of, “the things that […]
Quotabull
Does this mean Spitzer’s been a Republican all this time? — heard in the hallway outside my office. Message to Gov. Eliot Spitzer: I wanted to thank you for giving me the […]
The Weekly Carboholic
The March 10 issue of BusinessWeek has a set of charts that discuss a McKinsey & Company report that discusses how best to approach reducing carbon emissions. Essentially, the approach is to […]
So why are gasoline prices going up?
Today oil hit $110 a barrel and the national average cost of regular per gallon reached $3.246. Now, I’m not an economist; I only play one at S&R. But like most of […]
Government award revives thimerosal controversy?
I’m not enough of a medical expert to know exactly what this means, but I’m certain thousands of parents around the country with autistic children are keenly interested. Government Concedes Vaccine Injury […]
Ignoring America's recession
Back in 2001 the US Fed was considering the very real risk that the US government would be able to pay off their entire national debt. The government had been running a […]
The Reyes Doctrine: speak loudly and cower like a whipped cur
On February 14 Silvestre Reyes, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, crawled up in Dubya’s grille and dropped some righteous nard-stomping pro-democracy rhetoric on his punk ass. We were […]
More change we can believe in: Lawrence Lessig
Guest Scrogue Josh Nelson is a blogger, activist, and avid news junkie. He is currently the Online Grassroots Coordinator for a large environmental non-profit. He blogs primarily at The Seminal, where he […]
