A geeky post about content filtering, personal data ownership, and teen suicide… The NY Times reports that the nation’s Internet Service Providers may be planning to being actively regulating the flow of content that is allowed to pass through their networks. These companies – AT&T, Verizon, etc. – generally either have a monopoly on broadband…
Category: General News
2008 Headline Predictions
The NY Times 2008 headline prediction quiz can be found here. The questions and my answers are below. I only matched answers with Mr. Safire on 2 of 19 questions. 1. The business headline of the year will be: (a) Big Bounce to 15,000 Dow After Soft Landing (b) Recession Has Brokers Selling Apples…
Howard Dean says Jews OK in Heaven
It’s nice of Howard to be so accommodating with his authority, isn’t it? Dean reportedly said: In another statement likely to stir debate among the evangelical Christians his party is urgently trying to court, Dean also asserted “there are no bars to heaven for anybody” Although that’s certainly true, there is one little problem that faithful…
WW II Vets Decry Torture
Writing about a group of veterans who were responsible for interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt during WW II, Petula Dvorak of the Washington Post writes: Back then, they and their commanders wrestled with the morality of bugging prisoners’ cells with listening devices. They felt bad about censoring letters. They took prisoners out for steak dinners to…
The End of Judgment
Melanie Phillips’ latest article is entitled “The drowning of common sense“. It was written after a young boy named Jordon Lyon drowned while emergency workers allegedly dithered rather than trying to save him. Not surprisingly, the police have a different understanding of the tragedy. Somehow it seems difficult to lay blame on the police now…
Robert Jordan Dies at 58
Robert Jordan, the author of the popular Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels died yesterday at the age of 58. I’m sorry to see Jordan die so young. He was a talented writer whose WoT series was terrific for the first few books. The last few were not as good and now I wonder…