Two recent articles about the way women work and are portrayed in the media caught my attention. The contrast deserves an eye, I think. First, John Hawkins has a really interesting article up in which he interviews 5 female bloggers of conservative mind about their experiences working in Internet media. One common theme: Female bloggers…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
Wikipedia’s Authority
ValleyWag, the National Enquirer of the tech industry press, outed Jimmy Wales, founder and driving force behind Wikipedia, over the weekend for using his position as head of the online encyclopedia to "encourage" editing of his lover’s profile in the site’s database. There are plenty of details about, no need to dwell on them here. …
Brownback on Broken American Families
Via the NY Times, former Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback writes, briefly and brilliantly about the plight of the American family and our youth two generations removed from the free love revolution. Over the past five decades in the United States, the marriage rate has gone down and the divorce rate has gone up. In…
Houston Energy Summit Part II
Americans usually hear that energy-producing natural resources are in scarce supply. With regard to the current technological, regulatory, and economic context that is true. However, when industry experts discuss energy sources of the future they focus on which known resources to develop instead of whether they can find and produce more energy. One important question…
Houston Energy Summit, part 1
Energy industry leaders gathered in Houston yesterday to discuss the state of energy in the United States and the discussion immediately turned to economics. With regard to energy there is, according to John Hofmeister, CEO of Shell Oil, a fundamental law of human society that cannot be denied: the Law of Suppy and Demand. Gas…
Huckabee for President
Mike Huckabee brought his low-budget campaign to College Station, Texas today and wowed an overflowing auditorium filled primarily with Texas A&M University college students with his populist conservative message. I certainly expect Texas’ young conservatives to be out in force Tuesday if their response to today’s speech is any indication of their support for him….
Hillary Rocks in Houston
Facing a do-or-die primary in Texas, Hillary Clinton delivered a great speech at the Houston Presidential Energy Summit tonight. I was there and thought she did a terrific job even though the audience was probably smaller than she’d hoped to see in the 4th largest city in America. From the 4th row, Hillary – who…
Harvard Muslims Don’t Need to Assimilate
Harvard University has accepted a Muslim group’s petition to close the school’s Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center to me for an hour a day so that Muslim women can work out without the presence of men in the gym. Men have not been allowed to enter the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center during certain times since Jan….
Personal Ethics and Islamophobia
ABC recently placed actors "undercover" in a Waco, Texas bakery to observe Texans’ reactions to public anti-Islamic discrimination. Not surprisingly, the outcomes ran the gamut from Islamophobic to outstanding personal behavior. Our actor, Sabina, walked into the bakery in search of apple strudel. When she reached the counter, an actor posing as a sales clerk…
Clinton Scores, but Not Enough
Barack Obama closed tonight’s Democratic debate saying that he’d participated in 20 debates with Hillary Clinton and that he had no doubt that Hillary Clinton is a capable, competent candidate for the office they are both seeking. Obama’s tone said that he’s tired of the debate process and has had enough of it. As well…