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 […]
Drive-by: San Francisco passes imbecilic cellphone radiation law
No, really, read it for yourself. So, the largest global study detailing research into radiation and mobile phones plainly shows that there is no clear link between mobile phones and cancer. The […]
Jefferson: Self-governance and "the field of knowledge"
Final part in a series “The field of knowledge,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is the common prosperity of all mankind.” Jefferson’s words are inscribed in big bold letters in the entryway of Monticello’s […]
The road to liberty is bewildered by fascists, oh and American "libertarians" like Rand Paul
I saw a New York Times headline reading “The Randslide and Its Discontents” and assumed it was about the South African currency (which I hadn’t known was in trouble … it isn’t). This […]
We need better news stories, but how will we get them?
The media-reform activist organization, Free Press, has set up a press-bashing site called mediaFail, offering minimal instruction about what constitutes a bad news story versus a good news story. Thus we must […]
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 […]
Who should be held responsible? BP, Sovereignty, Personhood and the Corporation – Part 2
On 23 November 2009, the family of a challenger to the incumbent governor of Maguindanao province in the Philippines were on their way to file his certificate of candidacy. They were accompanied […]
Who should be held responsible? BP, Sovereignty, Personhood and the Corporation – Part 1
On 20 April, pressure built up in the well 1,500 metres beneath the Deepwater Horizon, an exploratory oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The pressure catapulted up the pipeline, overcoming the […]
Weeds 1, Monsanto 0, Farmers -1
This should come as no surprise, but The New York Times breathlessly informed us yesterday that US farmers are starting to have a hard time coping with Roundup-resistant weeds. That’s right. Straight […]
Obama U-turn on net neutrality? Let's hope so…
A few days ago FCC Chair Julius Genachowski suggested that the administration was seriously considering abandoning the president’s uncompromising pledge to enforce net neutrality. Some suggested at the time that the comments […]
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