Broadcasting over the internet continues for the moment, despite a bill in congress. All Things Considered has devoted a segment to this issue and it was also...
As more and more poor people connect to the Internet in America, the real digital divide may be between countries that export their old computers and countries...
I met conservative writer David Horowitz once. He appeared to be a gentleman, but I didn't have a prolonged discussion with him. I knew his obsession with the...
Salon has recently been running quite a bit about the 9/11 coverage. Much of it is, in tone, identical to the conservative press's coverage of the Clinton...
James and Peter are hard to figure, since much of what was written about them early on was anti-James, anti-Rocky. Here's a new book on the subject of James,...
Tim V. brings up the "incompetency" defense, and the President has seized upon it. Today he explained that what happened was due to his incompetency. Well, OK...
... A large, powerful organization that tells you what to believe, how to behave and has the ability to apply immense social pressure on dissidents and ...
tim v. brings up a book by: Robert Eisenman: "James the Brother of Jesus--the key to unlocking Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls" by the coauthor of...
Anyone know about this? <<During the war against Yugoslavia, CNN and National Public Radio hosted as interns U.S. Army psychological warfare operatives who...
PRESIDENT ANSWERS CRITICS ... IN UNUSUAL PRESS CONFERENCE, PRESIDENT DENIES THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION DELIBERATELY ORGANIZED THE COWARDLY ATTACK ON THE WORLD...
... Proving that I can't follow directions, I'll comment on each caption rather ... Perhaps Rutherfraud Bush has experienced a time dislocation, as in "Listen:...
the photo was Bush trying to teach kindergarten students, and just informed "for the first time", that the attack took place. I requested captions for the dumb...
NINE-ONE ONE SAVED THE OLYMPICS SAYS EXPERT ============================================ One of those "retired colonels" they have on Fox News just outdid...
A friend writes: << The real $64,000 question (speaking of "scrambling"... ) is: HOW DID FOUR major (United/American) airline PLANES fly radically off-course...
A friend writes: apropo the beginning of Pearl Harbor: << Everyone knew that the embargo [of Japan] was intolerable. Japan had no fuel. It would be on its...
My friend Steve Schumacher sums up what HE believes is the nature of 9/11 ... From: Stephen Schumacher <solmaker@...> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 02:32:18...
SEPTEMBER 2001 ============== Tim V. sent along the views of his friend on 9/11 and attendant scandals: << I'm not keen on backseat driving or selective...
A NEW BEAST ABOUT TO BE BORN ============================= 1. The usual tricks from the Clinton era--polls which show "no one cares"; tv media, even especially...
... Mainstream media outlets try not to offend the sensibilities of their readers and viewers. This makes them timid in certain times of stress. Newspeople had...
... I'd like to see product placement ads for whitehouse.com. -- Timothy Virkkala "Science and philosophy cast a net of words into the sea of being, happy in ...
Apropos of all this concern about the government not getting involved to prevent the disasters of 9/11/01... It is not the purpose of the government to PROTECT...
Stephen Jay Gould died yesterday. The cause of popularizing evolutionary ideas suffered a perceivable (if minor) setback. It should be noted that the cancer...
Nonsense! The purpose of the government in this case is defense. The jet plane interceptors are there for exactly that purpose. (They don't fly across the ...
There are allegations that 1. the Cheney Administration did not simply ignore, or fumble, warnings of imminent attack, but that it reversed standing policy...
A friend passes this along . . . << LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran U.S. news anchor Dan Rather has warned Americans not to let patriotism in the wake of the...