December 2010
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I like lists.
December is International Make a Bunch of Lists of Things from Throughout the Year Month.
This is a list of a lot of those lists.
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“On Fox News, they address her as Governor Palin, which is like calling me ‘Dairy...”
– Tina Fey
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“On Fox News, they address her as Governor Palin, which is like calling me ‘Dairy...”
– Tina Fey
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Let’s Hear It for the Unappreciated Heroes of 2010 →
Under-Appreciated Person One: Bradley Manning. While we were all fixated on Julian Assange, the story of the young American soldier who actually leaked the classified documents passed almost unnoticed. …
Manning signed up when he was just 18 believing he would be protecting and defending his country and the cause of freedom. He soon found himself sent to Iraq, where he was ordered to round up...
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“Maurice in Reflection” by Desertshore, who play...
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“Maurice in Reflection” by Desertshore, who play...
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“But all the bickering misses the wider point. Having led the world in internet...”
– N.V., The Difference Engine: Politics and the web
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The Big (Military) Taboo →
We face wrenching budget cutting in the years ahead, but there’s one huge area of government spending that Democrats and Republicans alike have so far treated as sacrosanct.
It’s the military/security world, and it’s time to bust that taboo. A few facts:
The United States spends nearly as much on military power as every other country in the world combined, according to the Stockholm...
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Holy Ignorance →
Over the past few years, a number of theories have been offered about the rise of fundamentalism. Roy proposes the most original — and the most persuasive. Fundamentalism, in his view, is a symptom of, rather than a reaction against, the increasing secularization of society. Whether it takes the form of the Christian right in the United States or Salafist purity in the Muslim world,...
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I used to order Coke with my meals. Every once in a while, a server would give me a Pepsi without alerting me. After one sip I would know I had been swindled.
The trailer for True Grit is amazing. The film is amazing, too, but not what the trailer promises.
The trailer makes True Grit look like a high-energy, dark shoot-’em-up: a couple of cowboys team up to avenge a 14-year-old girl’s father,...
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Why everyone hates new net neutrality rules—even... →
More surprising were the howls of dissatisfaction coming from net neutrality’s backers. Didn’t they just get what they wanted? Didn’t Obama’s campaign pledge—and Genachowski’s support for that pledge—finally come through?
“Despite promising to fulfill President Obama’s campaign promise of enacting Network Neutrality rules to protect an open Internet, the FCC has instead prioritized the profits...
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