For those of you who follow my Shelfari list, you will know I have been engrossed in a book by Jonah Goldberg titled Liberal Fascism. This is one of the best political books I have read in years and a book I recommend to everyone but especially my liberal/progressive friends. Rather than [...]
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Jonah Goldberg Speaks on his book Liberal Fascism
Well, here you are at your college graduation. And I know what you’re thinking: “Gimme the sheepskin and get me outta here!” But not so fast. First you have to listen to a commencement speech.
Don’t moan. I’m not going to “pass the wisdom of one generation down to the next.” I’m a member of the [...]
From The Guardian online:
Jonathan Zittrain, the amiable but intimidatingly brainy 38-year-old professor of “cyberlaw” at both Oxford and Harvard universities, thinks we shouldn’t forget the Hush-A-Phone story: it shows that unimaginable future innovations depend on our present-day technologies being “generative”, or open to being fiddled with. (A personal computer is generative: it can be programmed [...]
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Are gadgets killing the internet?
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, has posted on what he calls the “social surplus” or the time we gain by participating in the culture versus just sitting back and watching it pass by pursuing activities like watching TV.
Clay specifically cites TV, and singles outs sitcoms, [...]
Gin, Television and Social Surplus
California Republican John Campbell yesterday introduced in the House his “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act,” which would amend the tax code to allow individuals to make voluntary donations to the federal government above their normal tax liability. The bill would place a new line on IRS tax forms to make this easy.
Mr. [...]
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WSJ.com – Opinion: The Tax Me More Act
