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Category Archives: Politics

Participating in the Grand Democratic Experiment, one post at a time.

SMG.

by Rob Friesel

Seems the only thing that Cory Doctorow got wrong is that it’s “Sister Machine Gun” and not “Sister Machinegun”. Otherwise: B’gock! Timing being what it is, I’d *just*just*just* re-discovered Positron! Records… A & I have caned the Eco-hed album to death for years now (not to mention Micronaut…) and all of the sudden the other […]

ad tax.

by Rob Friesel

Via Kuro5hin: Why we Should Tax Advertising. This is a fantastic idea. Problematic in what you choose to enforce the tax on though. This could downright cripple smaller businesses. If only there was a way to fairly say, “You, you, and you are exempt. You and you must pay double.” Don’t see that working out […]

raze the roof.

by Rob Friesel

Now this seems a healthy way of dealing with problems and/or mistakes: Bush’s pledge to destroy the notorious prison was the symbolic highlight of a speech designed to convince an increasingly restive public that improvement is coming to Iraq despite a recent wave of violence and an international scandal sparked by images of U.S. troops […]

telling.

by Rob Friesel

I’ve come to this recent realization that my company is undergoing a sort of 99 Theses in Reverse. A technological anti-Reformation, if you will. At first it seemed like kind of a good idea. Get specialized teams. Have those teams focus on specific missions. Makes sense, right? But instead of create more nimble teams with […]