Day January 28, 2008

Bill Clinton as Trent Lott 2.0

Blogging and podcasting pioneer Dave Winer nails it in the Huffington Post. It was an interesting election until the Clintons started calling Obama the nice young African-American candidate. Yeah, I lived in the south long enough to understand what that…

Facebook and Zuckerberg

A-list tech blogger Robert Scoble asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, why the lousy PR and lack of response when problems happened, something which has severely impacted Facebook. The answer was quite unexpected. I asked him why he doesn’t like going…

Socialism and Stalin

Squirrel Communism looks at the horrors of Stalinism and the sometimes tendency of the socialist left to say this occurred outside of or was a perversion of the revolution. If we are to deal with this problem and eventually overcome…

Focus the Nation. Global warming national teach-in

 On January 31st , thousands of students on every campus, millions of students nationwide, participate in workshops and panels, brainstorming global warming solutions. Over 1600 institutions have signed up for Focus the Nation, and they’ve gotten endorsements from Obama and…