How many billionaires does it take to buy a presidential election? "With so much at stake" wrote Obama campaign manager Jim Messina on the Obama campaign's blog, Obama couldn't "unilaterally disarm." read more
Musician Neil Young called song piracy "the new radio" at the Dive Into Media conference in Los Angeles. "I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around," Young said. Matthew Ingram of GigaOm writes, "Comparing piracy to radio is a smart way of looking at the issue: in the early days of the music business, when live performances and record sales were the main revenue generator for artists and publishers, radio itself was seen as a form of piracy (as sheet music was before that)."
Ralph Nader: How unbecoming it is for the self-styled freedom-loving Wall Street Journal ("Ron Paul Nader?" Dec. 21) to use the politically bigoted word "spoiler" to describe a hypothetical Ron Paul-Libertarian party presidential run.
Why is a third-party candidate called a "spoiler" when the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties, that have given us a spoiled political system (corrupted by the highest bidder) are never referred to in such a pejorative way? These two decaying parties do not own the voters in this country, though they act that way through their many state laws obstructing outside competition. read more
By HELEN F. LADD and EDWARD B. FISKE
NO one seriously disputes the fact that students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school, on average, than their peers from more advantaged backgrounds. But rather than confront this fact of life head-on, our policy makers mistakenly continue to reason that, since they cannot change the backgrounds of students, they should focus on things they can control. read more
Who's that? You and your pet names for candidates is hard to follow. Usually it is cute names, or making fun of their hair...
#37 | Posted by crispee_oc
He was talking about this. They and all their friends vote Republican.