Category Archives: politics

makes you want to believe

His best one yet… Simply amazing speech.

“flat earth” journalism

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stanford dish, originally uploaded by griphiam.

A transcription of a speech given by Nick Davies, looking at what has happened to journalism in the last decade (give or take a few orders of magnitude). Its [...]

TED Talk — Lessig

Lessig’s arguments on copyright — great talk. TED has a bunch of such talks that are really, really specatular… I’ll try to link to some of the ones I like.

lessig’s new career

About a month ago now, Lessig rebooted his career.  Once the champion of copyright reform and founder of the Creative Commons (where he will still have a role), he has now decided to focus on “corruption.”
Corruption not in the sense of blatant bribery, and the stereotypical corruption prevalent a few generations ago (though still occasionally [...]

knee-jerk reactions always encroach on free speech

This post was originally going to be in reference to this revelation that a student had been kicked out of school for creating a Counter Strike map closely resembling his school.  This was all in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, when self-possessed individuals were trying to (yet again) blame video games.  Thankfully [...]

must see clips

If you haven’t seen these, then take a few minutes to catch up.
First off, Al Gore testified before the House and Senate committees on his views on global warming and energy usage (this clip is from the Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) committee. When you watch this, remember, Inhofe was the former chairperson [...]

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MSNBC Rips O’Reilly a New One!
Brilliant!  I had forgotten but apparently Keith Obermann was formerly an ESPN anchor.  I’m going to have to start watching his program if he’s going to be pulling stops like that.