A Bridge Loan? U.S. Should Guide G.M. in a Chapter 11 First, let’s recognize that G.M. doesn’t need life support. What it needs is Chapter 11. The bankruptcy process is not a bad thing — indeed, it should be embraced. Bankruptcy allows companies to do tough things they could never do in the normal course […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
Barry Goldwater, the Last Smart Republican
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Daily Kos: State of the Nation ” […] Then something happened. Nixon played to it of course but it really came into play in the 1990’s and even more this past decade. Republicans turned their backs on smart people. Just like that, being smart was less important than being ‘real’. Being qualified was about being […]
New political AI technology
Monday, September 29, 2008
Interview Sarah Palin Can’t get an interview with Sarah Palin? We’ve got you covered. Q: What is the role of the US in Iraq and Afghanistan? Iraq that John McCain has done, that has to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we’re on, reform of government […]
TV is out, Web 2.0 is in
Friday, August 22, 2008
GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS: A Talk By Clay Shirky […] People asking, “Where do they find the time?” when they’re looking at things like Wikipedia don’t understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of the cognitive surplus that’s finally being dragged into what Tim O’Reilly calls an architecture of participation. Now, […]
Because gun control is just that darn dangerous
Thursday, July 31, 2008
There’s Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole But these two Marys share a lot in common—a Mother Jones investigation has found that McFate and Sapone are, in fact, the same person. And this discovery has caused the leaders of gun violence prevention organizations to conclude that for years they have been penetrated—at the […]
Nigeria takes over Ebay and eats its brain
Friday, May 9, 2008
It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay This time I contacted the Live Chat system. I explained the whole drama, and was told to go on the website and contact eBay’s security team. I did so, […] I received the following response: ?Dear eBay member, If you need help resetting your […]
Epic waste
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars – WSJ.com Mazda saw no easy way to guard against these outcomes. So it decided to destroy approximately $100 million worth of factory-new automobiles. This after: High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace “Come on, Marty,” Habib says as they […]
More fuel/food ridiculousness
Monday, April 28, 2008
Energy Bill II could reap a bitter harvest While making practically no dent in the energy shortage, both energy bills have gone a long way to deprive America’s huge agricultural exports of the tens of billions of revenues that farm goods provided the U.S. export sector. […] Now we’re finding out that imports of oil […]
Meth country
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sierra Magazine: Welcome to Meth Country Law enforcement officers […] must wear hermetically sealed moon suits and self-contained breathing apparatuses for protection. Hazmat (hazardous-materials) teams then come in to clean up the mess. And it’s a big mess: For every pound of meth produced, between five and six pounds of highly toxic waste is generated. […]
Dot on letter ‘i’ kills two in Turkey
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
from Gizmodo That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localization of the cellphone’s typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath (Warning: offensive language ahead.)
