Some Congressional Republicans have skipped heading home during the August break to instead park out at Congress and try to pressure the Democrats to vote and debate on energy bills. Okay, first off a couple of Twitter messages that might provide some background into this issue. John Culberson, a House Republican from Texas, who uses Twitter …
Freedom of speech, means the freedom to say anything irregardless of it being stupid or mean. Now granted you do have to have reasonable limits of freedom of speech in order for society to operate, the standard screaming fire in a crowded building clause. But freedom of speech means just that, you can’t operate in …
I never quite understood the point of there being offered a time for students to pray during school hours. For one, teachers and administrators always seem to be all about pushing as much into the kids as is possible, so to waste anywhere from 5 — 10 minutes every days just seems like a lot …
I read some two interesting article that got me thinking about a possible solution to Iraq. What if we let the Iraq’s decide if the US should stay the course in Iraq or pull out? I know radical idea letting the people we are directly affecting decide their fate. Two things got my radar buzzing on …
Recently Steve Rubel posted about What’s the Future Like for a “Renaissance Man” in a Connected World?. In this post he discuses how even though we would think that with the internet an individual could have broad knowledge about the world, instead people specialize in their particular area of expertise. He then says that he …
Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft. Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining their …
I keep finding that there is a ton of stuff day in and day out that I want to talk about but I don’t have the time or it isn’t really needing a full blog post to devote to. However I still wish to inform people about some of the most interesting stuff I find …
