Oh, this is great. Earlier this year, Christopher Knight made a video to promote his run for the Board of Education in Rockingham County, NC. He posted his video to you-tube, and because it was clever and funny it got a lot of attention. VH-1 decided to include Mr. Knight’s video in it’s Web Junk [...]
It has become the worn cliché of our times to express one’s disbelief in the ineptitude and corruption of our government or its officials. The very idea that the government should aid its neediest citizens has become a nostalgic dream — a tail handed down from past generations. Two years ago this week, hurricane [...]
The Washington Post reported today that China will begin pushing images of cartoon police officers to Beijing Internet users beginning September 1st. The anime officers will remind users of their government’s all watchful eye. Specifically,
[t]he male and female cartoon officers, designed for the ministry by Sohu, will offer a text warning to surfers to abide [...]
Alberto Gonzales resigned today as United State Attorney General. After nearly a year of growing criticism over his AG, Mr. Bush continued to defend his long time friend saying: “It’s sad that we live in a time that a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeding [sic] from doing important work because [...]
Earlier this week, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell gave a lengthy and somewhat duplicitous interview with the El Paso Times. Mr. McConnell made available a number of interesting assertions and revelations. For instance, this is the first time a government official acknowledged that private firms (such as AT&T and Verizon) had been aiding the intelligence [...]
Robert Greenwald has done a nice video summation of the push for war with Iran:
The media has been particularly lazy in trying to understand or present the complexities of both Middle Eastern and Islamic culture and politics. For instance, I am sure that you have not heard that Al Qaeda has been threatening Iran with [...]
I learned today that Joybubbles (aka Josef Engressia) had died on August 8th. I never knew Joybubbles, never spoke to him, but I knew of him. I had first heard his name some thirty years ago when I was shown my first bluebox, and heard how he had routed a phone call around the world [...]
