Facebook buys FriendFeed
This is huge. Even if no one quite know what it means yet. Facebook says they do not want to disrupt FriendFeed, plan to incorporate FriendFeed ideas into Facebook, and then maybe look at integrating them.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month August 2009
US military. Climate change is threat to security
The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say.…
On those town hall meetings
Some posts you may have missed here. My views on the town hall meetings. Attempts at disrupting meetings can easily be stopped by the organizers. The fascist hordes are not massing at the gates. The 60’s were a whole lot…
White House launches Reality Check on health care
From the White House comes Reality Check, a mini-site filled with factual rebuttals to the current deranged and hysterical right wing accusations. This is just the start, I’m sure, of the pushback. If you’ve tuned into the news in the…
Budd Schulberg: Saint or Sinner?
We’ve all seen the movie, and we’re all familiar with the iconic scene – when failed boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brandon) confronts his slick gangster brother, Charley (Rod Steiger) in the back of the cab on its way to delivering…