Month: June 2006

Via Pajamas Media, I found myself drawn to John Carroll‘s remarks about the so-called “net neutrality” issue: Where faster tiered access might affect things, however, is in Google’s new video service, the revenue for which will mostly be paid by ads. If broadband providers are allowed to tier access, companies such as Google might have…

The stuff I read in the news these days. . . Sheesh. Anyway, there’s an ongoing debate now over whether there’s a double standard in the case of sexual predators. According to WorldNetDaily, there is, with females getting off scot-free. The article features a long list of incidents, with photographs displayed, and I couldn’t help…

Dismissing Peggy Noonan’s third party idea as “pure piffle,” John Hawkins argues (quite convincingly, IMO) that “moderates” are undefinable and unelectable because any position will alienate one block of voters or another so that “in the end all they’ll end up accomplishing is draining off enough support to cost one party or the other the…

Other than to say it sucks, I don’t know what to say about this attack on peaceful gay demonstrators in Russia, also described here: Orthodox Christians, Russian ultra-nationalists and skinheads attacked a handful of gays who showed up by the Kremlin to put flowers to the Unknown Soldier Memorial. Riot police detained up to 120…

Speaking of nanny state travel travails (and something worse than bureaucratized attack toilets), the New Jersey Star Ledger’s Paul Mulshine devotes his column today to the bureaucratic detention of passengers during last week’s power outage (discussed infra). Interviewing passenger Liz Anklow and Doug Bowen of the New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers, Mr. Mulshine explores…