NPR reports that a scientist at NOAA, Susan Solomon, says that the damage done by our CO2 emissions has already reached the stage that a considerable amount of future damage is unavoidable, going so far as to use the term “irreversible” to win some new and much needed press coverage. While the soundbite above hardly [...]
I personally abstained in the Cox vs Johnson race, as per my previous post, and voted Lib/Green in the Presidential Senatorial races, as per my previous post. Turns out that my predictions about the complete irrelevance of my vote in those races were confirmed. Each of the three races seems likely to end with a [...]
The Washington Post recently put out a piece about the declining health of Cheney. This raises a question that I’ve always wondered about. Maybe someone knows the answer:
What happens when a lame duck president or veep kicks the bucket? In those cases where the Presidency is staying in the party or, even simpler, going straight [...]
Johnson’s stats from the current Congress:
Number of sponsored bills: 8
Number of co-sponsored bills 161
Number of sponsored bills passed: 0
Number of co-sponsored bills passed: 9
Our remarkably unsuccessful four-term Congressman in the fifteenth Congressional District in Illinois seems shockingly… well, unsuccessful this time around. If this fellow was a lawyer in any of our [...]
I fired off the below after reading Corey Doctorow’s recent news post about Wal-Mart’s about face on DRM. It occurred to me shortly afterwards that there may be enough consumers affected by the Yahoo, MSN, and Wal-Mart server shut-downs that we might be able to make noise enough to get a new DMCA exemption for [...]
http://badbarr2008.com/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080606/0136491330.shtml
The libs aren’t even running a libertarian (small L) this year? So which of these three folk who want to strip away my fair use rights am I supposed to vote for again? Bad year for IP counter-reform. Bad year for privacy rights. Bad year for consumer rights. Bad year for folk who’d like [...]
As a libertarian I really don’t care if most of the workers of the world want to unite. That said, I do suddenly find myself a dues-paying union man. This May Day Labor Day, I suppose I am now obligated to post something that can help bring up the downtrodden, help to minimize the impact [...]
Just a quick note – I just saw the much anticipated Hillary Clinton speech, and I must say, that was the most unprofessional, poorly written mess of a speech I’ve seen in a long time. Everyone’s hero Mike Gravel could have done better.
Did anyone else notice how it turned from a concession speech to a self-serving [...]
“Russia says the West badly undermined its own arguments for the sanctity of Georgia’s borders by supporting Kosovo’s declaration of independence from traditional Russian ally Serbia in February.”
Makes ya feel all chuckly, don’ it? It would be ever so much more cool now to spend time in Kosovo or Abkahzia than Serbia or Georgia.
On a [...]
Joe Biden’s pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record
I’ll be shocked if this news breaks outside of technical circles, but at least there’s some vibrant discussion on CNet, /., et al about this man’s frequent attempts to do substantial damage to our basic fundamental human right to privacy. Any chance at all that the Republicans might do [...]
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