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Category Archives: Politics

Online activism

This is from an email I sent to a couple of friends this morning about the tendency to forward messages we receive advocating activism to resolve some problem we see as important.
DP> Sorry, XXXX. This one’s older than the other one. See
DP> http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp.
PP> I guess I want to do something about high gas [...]

Purple Mountain Majesty

You’ll recognize the title of this piece as a line from America the Beautiful. Yet that isn’t the America I see on this April morning in 2007. America today, if you believe the media, is divided into Red and Blue states. But if you combine red and blue, you get purple. [...]

Learn about Net Neutrality

Spend the 10 minutes and 24 seconds it takes to watch this video for an excellent overview of what the issues are surrounding Net Neutrality. (Thanks to Paul Stamatiou for the link to the video.)