More evidence that the right wing media is thoroughly corrupted

Consider this implied admission, that the National Review "spent the last eight years holding their tongue, taking it easy on Bush, averting their eyes from failures, and deliberately backing power over truth."   Compare this talk with the November 2006 admission by Rush Limbaugh, that "I no longer am going to…

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Court bans sale of spyware

What do you think?  Should this sort of software be offered for sale?  One federal court based in Florida said "no": When consumer victims clicked on the disguised file, the keylogger spyware silently installed in the background without the victims' knowledge. This spyware recorded every keystroke typed on the victim's…

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Obama button collage poster: Change we can believe in

A friend of mine named Dan Martin (of St. Louis) has taken the time to arrange images of various Obama buttons into an attractive collage.  It's attractive both artistically and in an Obamaesque-reknitting-of-the-social-fabric-sort-of-way.  Using a high quality white paper, Dan has been busy distributing 11' x 17" copies of his…

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Bill Ayers: Passive living as violent living

Bill Ayers talked with Salon.com, exploring many issues.   I was especially interested in his characterization of those Americans who would argue that they are passive or non-violent by the fact that they are not, themselves, physically violent.  Per Ayers, there is no "neutral" when one's country is perpetrating despicable violence.…

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