Category: Culture
Sunlight Foundation – House Violates 72 Hour Pledge Again
De-funding a valuable public resource and usurping democracy, all emergencies and all in a days work for Republicans.
TorrentFreak – Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?
Why indeed?
Bad Astronomy – Next up for Congress: repeal the law of gravity
I’ve been trying thing of something to put here but can’t.
NYTimes.com – The Austerity Delusion
We have to avoid being like Europe so we’ll do what Europe did but it’ll turn out differently for us.
NYTimes.com – Whatever Nuclear Power’s Threat, No Easy Alternatives
Not typically known but true, especially when taking into account the pollutants that coal plants emit.
NYTimes.com – Brigitte Gabriel Draws Crowds in U.S. With Anti-Islam Message
Fear much like sex sells, for better or worse.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain
This should be declared unconstitutional, once work goes in the public domain, the work should stay there, perpetual copyright is a bad deal.
Freedom to Tinker – Seals on NJ voting machines, March 2009
So security seals protecting those voting machines, useless.
NYTimes.com – White House Issues Report on Women in America
And you wonder if feminism is still needed or if women are treated equally?