Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

A Washington Post article by Laurie David, entitled “Science a la Joe Camel” reports how the producers of “An Inconvenient Truth”, a documentary film about global warming, wished to make the documentary available FREE to classrooms, and offered the National Science Teachers Association 50,000 dvd copies of the film. The NSTA declined on the basis […]

he’s not a big enough, honest enough man to admit he’s wrong. And he IS wrong - about a lot of things, but first and foremost about the middle east. He’s wrong. He needs to admit he’s wrong, get us the HELL out of there, and let them do their worst to […]

I’d been feeling “funny” about Murtha ever since it was posited that he might become the majority leader…. and I didn’t know WHY I was feeling that way.
Until last night, when it hit me out of the blue: he reminds me all too much of “Bo” Gritz….

Unless you’re a head in the sand sort or believe the anti Global Warming Propaganda, you know that the largest contributors to Greenhouse CO2 emissions are Coal Burning Power Plants. Now, there has been some work done to create a technology, called IGCC, which turns coal into a gas before burning and result in much […]

Michael Bywater’s essay entitled “We’re all Big Babies” really ties a lot of my speculation of the last ten years together in a new way. I’m one of those bizarre people who threw out my TV set years ago, so I’m somewhat more immune to Marketing Messages than the average person, and in fact often […]

There’s an interesting article in an unlikely source. RampRate is a “Strategic Research” company aimed at Market Investors. They’ve posted an article entitled “A New Take on Net Neutrality” which gives their analysis of Interactive Gaming and Voip and why these two internet services will suffer the most if net neutrality isn’t reinstated. The bottom […]

There are publications, websites and other Citizen Journalist sites reporting this story, but with only a couple exceptions (the New York Times and the New York Daily News among them) the Big Media outlets are not touching this one. Why? It’s because they’re “in play” and there’s a lot of dough, and a lot of […]

Quoted from Free Press which reprinted from The New York Times; this is a fair and balanced article which while it does tout the benefits of satband for those of us without other options, also points out the downsides without pretending that’s all there is to it.
Due to where I live (far southwestern Utah, closer […]

Pasadena Weekly has a good article about the recent leaked ABC memo, and, to some degree, debunks the spin put on the issue by Corporations who have participated in the redlining of radio station affiliates who carry Air America Radio, a liberal talk radio show that, on a regular basis, lampoons a lot of […]

Incoming House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) says he wants the FCC to hold off on the AT&T/BellSouth merger. According to the article in Broadcasting and Cable, Chairman Dingell “says the committee will have to take a hard look at any FCC loosening of media ownership rules, and will take a […]