Why the Net was broken ThursdayUUNet, who handle 50% of the world’s Net traffic, was doing a router upgrade and they botched it. Network experts were troubled at UUNet’s choice to deploy a wide-scale upgrade without testing and retesting the…

Disconnect between American People and their elected representatives. Last evening, as usual my wife and I listened to Friday’s offerings on the local PBS station: Jim Lehrer Newshour, Washington Week, and Bill Moyers’ NOW. All day, though, I had been in…

California Latino Caucus rejects Gray Davis This is an extraordinary move by the Latino caucus.  A group of Democratic Latino lawmakers rejected an endorsement of Gov. Gray Davis’ re-election campaign Friday, angered about the governor’s veto of a measure that would…

Shut up Tony, says Bush Humiliating rebuff for Blair initiative Now Bush is attacking allies.  I tell ya, this guy is just out of control.  Tony Blair’s drive for Middle East peace talks has suffered an embarrassing setback at the…

There’s a website for everything! Taliban Reunited

What a guy Tom Daschle flies to L.A. last weekend for a six million dollar fundraiser attended by progressive Democrats at Barbra Streisand’s.  Then he goes back to D.C. and announces he is for Bush’s war. Tell me progressive Democrats,…

No kidding??? Water privatization a touchy issue for California The apparent breakdown of a deal between private Cadiz Inc. and the public Metropolitan Water District (MWD) to build a $150-million water storage facility in the Mojave Desert has called into…