Heard about the internet access riots an Blue Diamond, NV; how about the broadband protests in Hurdland, MO; then surely, the download speed pickets in Oglesby, TX? Neither have I! And with good reason, they did not occur! Then why do we see a headline in Thursday’s WSJ shouting: “Bigger U.S. Broadb ...
I’ve commented before on the tendency to anticipate the anniversary of events, and everyone in the Oz media has been doing just that ahead of the milestone of two years since the election of the Rudd government, which falls on Tuesday. Of particular interest is a long piece by Shaun Carney in The Ag ...
“Can you imagine having to pay to use roads like a cell phone plan? All those pay-per-use fees and roaming charges? And…haha, system access fees!” “Oh, so I take it you’d also like your cell phone plan state-owned then?” “No, because I still believe in a free choice.” (Use this for your web comic if ...
So I took a trip to Myanmar this week. I’ll blog about it later. In the meantime I have a bunch of tabs of stuff I’ve been meaning to share and I’ll have to just dump them w/o much comment because they’re slowing down Firefox. The Atlantic: “ Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” by Hanna Rosin. Short ...
Listening to Sir Hugh Orde this morning, I was struck by the notion that there are an awful lot of people currently engaged in running the country who really don't get this whole Democracy schtick. Sir Hugh announced that if Conservative plans to introduce democratically elected police chiefs were f ...
On my other blog I posted my idea for a new congressional agency, please give it a read. Small preview: The Congressional Constitution Office would be a mandatory part of the legislative process. All legislation that made it through the House or Senate would require an addendum from the CCO analyzin ...
At times we need someone who has lived in the “greener side” to help us realize what a unique, blessed country we are. When you read this series of articles from an individual who lived under communist rule in Russia, you will see that the “greener side” of a centrally planned economy, government co ...
I never thought that I would utter these words, but we need a new congressional agency. This new agency, the Congressional Constitution Office, or CCO, would be modeled after the independent Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office has been in the news recently for reporting high ...
'The conservative-socialist meme ignores the evermore clamorous libertarian movements in the US and abroad. -- It is great to read this article in the Guardian, a leftist British newspaper of note, because the machinery of mainstream media manipulation is laid out for anyone to see here. It ignores ...
As I have stated in my blog, I am new to observing Billerica politics and in particular to the ways in which the town conducts its daily business. I used to think that I understood that Billerica. I saw it as a good community threatened by an inept and corrupt past and a [...]
