"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
“If something similar comes to pass in Venezuela, you should not have the slightest doubt that I won’t give a penny to the banks – I’ll expropriate them,” said Mr Chavez. But then Venezuela would have to pump billions into…
USA Today/Gallup: Obama 53%. McCain 42%. Financial Times: “Obama extends lead.” WaPo/ABC poll: Obama holds a “sizable advantage.” ABC pollster. Obama “closing strongly.”
Obama wants to “employ technology to solve our most pressing problems.” This includes broadband for all, a modern communications infrastructure, online access to governmental data with feedback and comments from citizens, major R&D for cleantech and renewable energy, more science…
Every now and then, GMail gets weird, and insists I re-login using an almost unreadable captcha. A couple of times I said my account was suspended but then presented a login with no captcha which worked fine. Which is more…
Studs Terkel, rabble-rouser, activist, chronicler of the uncommonly common, artist-in-residence, peacenik, gad-fly, listener, died at 96 at his home here on Halloween. Studs was a singular Chicago character in this wildly diverse world, someone who lived fully through his own…