Lawrence Lessig explains the corrosive effects of private campaign financing to a conservative think tank, in terms even they can understand
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- Friday 29th January 2010
On the evening of Obama’s State Of The Union speech, Lessig visited the Cato Institute to make the case for public campaign financing. Besides being brilliant and well-spoken, Lessig is also incredibly brave.
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This pretty much sums it up
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- Tuesday 26th January 2010
Chris Hedges puts the situation into perspective with his essay “Democracy In America Is A Useful Fiction.” Oh, how those Harvard divinity students with 20 years of NY Times foreign-reporting experience carry on.
Thanks to Mr. Jam, cause jelly don’t shake…
That gurgle you hear is democracy’s death rattle. (Updated)
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- Thursday 21st January 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court just struck down the law prohibiting corporations from massive, unlimited donations in the name of “free speech.” Welcome to government of the people by the corporation, for the corporation. “The chair recognizes the Senator from Wal-Mart and Citibank.”
Lawrence Lessig is one of the only sane voices on the issue:
And Change Congress is the organization he founded…
While looking at something else on YouTube
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- Sunday 17th January 2010
So Chad was over here last week and we got to talking and he sent over a few links once he got home and one of them was this fine yodeling ting by Karl Denver:
Whenever something really bad happens in the world…
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- Thursday 14th January 2010
…you can depend on some “Christian” asshole to start farting out some nonsense about why “they” deserved it.
Pat Robertson on the tragedy in Haiti, for instance:
And as Pat himself says: “True…
Death of the Sun; E.B. White on vanishing newspapers
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- Saturday 9th January 2010
This is going to be one of those posts where I have to do a lot of explaining. Please hang in there.
E.B. White was one of the greatest writers in the English language (Mt. Vernon, New York REPRESENT!). He wrote principally for the New Yorker magazine, when it was one of the best magazines in the English language. He also wrote, among other things, Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and The…
Looking for cheap, fast internet service? Leave the country.
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- Saturday 9th January 2010
According to Consumer Reports for November 2009: “Other countries offer faster, cheaper broadband connections. For example, U.S. consumers pay almost twice as much for connections that are on average 20 times slower than those in…
