According the New York Times, Madison, Wis. has over 100 bars in its downtown and is struggling to create harmony between drunken revelers and urban young professionals. (The University of Wisconsin-Madison is my alma mater.)
SavetheInternet.com, the coalition of organizations which is fighting to keep the Interent equally open to all content providers, has a moderately hip new video that explains “Net Neutrality” and why you should care.
(Bonus points if you spot my old college professor, Bob McChesney. Hint: He speaks just before Bill Moyers).
I live close to the Franconia-Springfield metro station here in Fairfax County, Virginia. Last year, I calculated what it would cost to ride Metro to work every day. Turned out, that with the recent fare increases, it wasn’t really much cheaper than driving. Now Metro is considering raising the fares further. Rob of the Raising […]
Laura Bush thinks that it’s the media’s fault that only 21 percent of American’s support her husband’s Iraq policy. As Editor and Publisher reports:
Appearing on MSNBC this morning with Norah O’Donnell, Laura Bush blamed the media, when asked why only 21% of Americans, in a recent NBC poll, said they approved of her husband’s Iraq […]
A Washington Post article details how the Republican “invisible” presidental primary has already begun. Just as in the previous two contests, well-heeled donors giving more than $100,000 or $200,000 apiece — “Rangers” and “Pioneers” in Bush campaign-speak — will all but select the Republican nominee without the messy business of actually balloting:
Ed Rogers, a Republican […]
This is clever. The Huckleberry is a little mirror that clips to the top of your MacBook and points your iSight the other way. It essentially turns your iSight into a video camera. You can show your video chat buddy something else in your room other than your ugly mug. If I actually had a […]
Today, the Washington Post reported that Washington DC’s last remaining classical music station, WGMS, has been purchased by the owner of the Washington Redskins. There are two local NPR affiliates here, but the one that played classical music gave up that format in 2005. Today, the stations’ schedules simply ape each other — wielding dueling […]
Kos thinks that Barack Obama would easily seize the Democratic nomination, should he choose to seek it:
Standard caveats aside (it’s early, we don’t have a set field, blah blah blah), it’s hard to see how Barack Obama loses the nomination barring scandal or the mother-of-all gaffes.
I think that prognostication at this early stage is premature. […]