Great quote in today’s New York Times about Obama and his critics:
I’ve never seen anyone so roundly criticized for such grievous offenses as giving excellent speeches and urging people of different backgrounds to take a chance on working together.
1. When was the last time we could criticize a Canadian politician for either of those [...]
A luxury/horror of my work is that I read about a dozen newspapers a day. I’ve discovered that these headlines could be from any indiscriminate period and are repeated weekly as if it was new news.
“Greenhouse gas emissions reach record highs”
“Climate change is occurring more quickly than expected”
“Price of oil reaches record high”
“Income inequality [...]
What’s going on with MTV?
Here are two promos from their THINK campaign that got me thinking: WTF MTV?
Some YouTube comments, inevitably perhaps, argue that this is merely the malicious agency of the Jewish conspiracy at work. Others, that becoming a fascistic state that rounds folks up with dogs and guns isn’t a pressing concern.
wareaglemom [...]
The internets (and old media, too) have been ablaze with the Anonymous declaration of their intent to “disassemble” the disgusting Church of Scientology.
I mostly ignored this.
It is nothing new, really. Scientology versus the internet has been with us, well, since well before alt.relgions.scientology on Usenet. It has continued, at a regular and consistent [...]
A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture by Larry Lohmann, the editor of “Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power.”
I entered being a strong supporter of cap-and-trade systems and left — although not 180 degrees altered — seriously more critical of such initiatives and generally suspicious of existing programs. And [...]
Two Obama posts in a row? Outrageous, you say.
I just saw this video, which inspired this post. It’s great. Really really great. Poetic, patriotic, progressive.
It’s unembeddable (which is absurd, btw) and I strongly advise you to go and visit before reading the reset of the article…
Now, Obama is no JFK. In fact, JFK was [...]
Hegemony or Survival? Perhaps the question has been already answered. America is doubtless on the decline and while the business and investment community has awoken to this fact, old media is waking up , too.
Parag Khanna writes in next week’s New York Times Magazine:
It is 2016, and the Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Barack [...]
The Canadian Recording Industry Association is now lobbying to have the private copying levy (the useless tax you pay on blank CDs and MP3 players) not apply to iPods. This is the result of the Canadian Copyright Board’s interpretation that the levy eliminates the illegality of p2p file-sharing.
Prolific blogger and Canada Research Chair of [...]
While reading online about the Alberto Gonzales resignation I mistakenly wound up at CNN.com. Their only mention of the Gonzales firing on the main page was: “Bush: Gonzales’ name dragged in mud” and a link to a Time.com article, “Gonzales finally caves. Why?”
Also included on the CNN main page: “Killer Greek wildfires may be terror [...]