This week the Communications Workers of America released its report on broadband speeds across America. It’s a sobering document which should serve as an indictment of the entire American telecommunications model. However because their methodology relied upon users running their own speed test, the defenders of the status quo will claim the findings [...]
This week Vice-President Dick Cheney announced that he and his office were not part of the executive branch of our government and were not subject to laws governing it. Cheney’s argument is that since the Vice-President has legislative duties, ie. he presides as the president of the Senate, that he’s cannot be subject to [...]
In the 1980s Hollywood produced a number of films that allowed America to re-fight the Vietnam war — only this time we would win. Almost all of these films shared the same generally outlandish premise: the weak American politicians had abandoned American soldiers in Vietnam to such a degree that 10 years later serviceman were [...]
