Archive for September, 2008

  • From Canada you can see reality.

    By Steve Maich
    I’ll be writing a lot more about this in the upcoming issue, but at the risk of getting ahead of myself, I have to express my sadness at the goings on south of the border right now. The U.S. government is in the process of negotiating a bailout plan which will likely come [...]

  • … on a popsicle stick.

    In what respect, Katie?
    “All of them”? What is she, 14?

    YouTube – Sarah Palin Can’t Name a Newspaper She Reads.

  • Oh look, free handcuffs!

    Thank you, Richard Stallman.  I cannot believe how many otherwise rational people trust Google with their mail and documents.  No wonder you can’t work up a critical mass of resistance to government surveillance in the US and UK.  These idiots want their mail filtered through an advertising engine and stored on a private corporation’s servers [...]

  • Unpossible!

    Howard Kurtz sez there are shoes left to drop:

    Palin was halting, repetitive and occasionally stumped on basic questions. And the worst moments — boasting again, Tina Fey-like, of Alaska’s proximity to Russia — have been endlessly replayed on other networks and the Web.
    It may have been a turning point for Couric, who was persistent without [...]