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Technology
At no time in human history has the average person had more access to information than they do today, yet we remain as aggressively ignorant as our most benighted and oppressed ancestors. The thing I find most tragic about the situation in America is how far we have fallen from […]
Too Much Information
I have come to the conclusion that even as pragmatic and reasonable people accomplish great things over the coming years of an Obama administration, all we will see and hear in the near future (both on- and off-line) will be...
the evolution won’t be televised
President-elect Barack Obama ran on a detailed set of policy solutions for many of our most pressing challenges. Neoconservative pundits and an anemic news media aside, he won the support of many political moderates for the depth and breadth of...
restoring american civility
My personal political ideals fall somewhat to the left of Dennis Kucinich and to the right of Karl Marx. In contrast to many caricatures of my posts at TPM, my understanding of Obama's stance on FISA has zero to do with...
The last time I use the acronym FISA
If I were going to suggest a series of books that President Barack Obama and his administration read it would be three novels by Kim Stanley Robinson. It is a tale set in a world with rapid climate change dominating...
Forty Signs of Rain
I had an epiphany yesterday while talking to my ultra-hip cousin who lives in Harlem and is a big Obama supporter. We were discussing how it is that the traditional corporate media outlets continue to act as if today's Internet...
Politics 3.0
11 One thing I noticed this campaign season is the lack of civility in political conversation, mostly as it is carried out on the web, but in person as well. We have lost some sort of governing mechanism that allows us...