As most of you would probably guess, I’m opposed to so-called “net neutrality” for a variety of reasons. Originally, one of them went like this: Do we really want people like Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens deciding how bandwidth should be doled out?
But then I stumbled on this article from Lew Rockwell. While I [...]

I just overheard Keith Olbermann state that (I’m paraphrasing) “President Bush said in his speech last night that mistakes had been made in Iraq, but he didn’t say ‘I made mistakes in Iraq’”.
I suppose that no, strictly speaking, he didn’t speak those exact words. What he did say was this:
The situation in Iraq is unacceptable [...]

It may not be very obvious, but this is a picture of the jackknifed tractor-trailer which held up untold numbers of people – including myself – on I-26W earlier today. A number of other vehicles appeared to be involved. This was all due to a snowstorm which appeared to come from nowhere as I headed [...]

A friend of mine has recently informed me that right-wing conservative Christianity’s Grand Poobah, Pat Robertson, has announced that we’re doomed to suffer another terrorist attack in 2007 (not that this type of event is particularly unlikely to occur – I just prefer intelligence data to the quasi-schizophrenic ramblings of a televangelist). How does he [...]