Category Archives: political perspective
Alpha Geek – Prime Directive vs US Troops abroad
This is the type of chart only a true geek could make.
Newsweek fails at internet prognostication.
Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works. The … Continue reading
Telecom immunity
Today the Senate voted on a bill which would remove Telecom Immunity from the FISA Amendments Act of 2007. Here is the voting record. Both Republican and Democrat Senators in Virginia that believe it’s ok for Telecoms to assist the … Continue reading
I just voted
In the VA primaries for my candidate, you go vote too.
xkcd support Obama.
Obama has shown a real commitment to open government. When putting together tech policy (to take an example close to home for xkcd) others might have gone to industry lobbyists. Obama went to Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons (under … Continue reading
50 Most Loathsome People in America
9. You Charges: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 for Spanish. You … Continue reading
The Bad Plus covers Aphex Twin’s “Film”
It’s kinda muddy in this medium, but it’s pretty cool when they’re cleanly miked.
How Michael Mukasey’s squishiness on water-boarding became laudable intellectual independence.
The word independence is tossed around a good bit at this morning’s Senate judiciary committee vote to approve Michael B. Mukasey as the next attorney general. Democrats and Republicans alike laud Mukasey’s independence of mind. But Orin Hatch, R-Utah, manages … Continue reading