Tag: Politics

BBC News – Giffords shooting: Suspect Jared Loughner charged
What a tragedy.
January 9, 2011
Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans
Remember those Net Neutrality rules the FCC voted on a few weeks ago, this is exactly the loophole that everyone feared.
January 8, 2011
NPR – Congresswoman, 6 Others, Killed By Gunman
Political disagreements should never be resolved through violence.
January 8, 2011
ConceivablyTech – The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent
Just when you thought patents couldn’t get any more stupid, IBM comes through.
January 3, 2011
The New Yorker – Sorting out the Senate
In Congress it isn’t majority rule, it’s super-majority rule.
January 3, 2011
Toppling the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq : The New Yorker
This is a classic New Yorker story, take a single idea or story go really in depth, pull interesting nuggets and raise questions.
January 3, 2011
NYTimes.com – Deep Hole Economics
Pretty simple, jobs, jobs and more jobs should be the primary priority of any government in this situation.
January 2, 2011
Electronic Frontier Foundation – 2010 Trend Watch Update: Global Internet Censorship
Censorship and the internet, what’s up with that.
January 2, 2011
Schneier on Security – Full Body Scanners: What’s Next?
Simply and beautifully put.
January 1, 2011
Truthout – Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice
Arizona really is just a bundle of crazy isn’t it.
January 1, 2011