Monthly Archives: August 2008

Too Much News…

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 26, 2008

Last night I joined in an IRC chat room with a couple dozen funny, well-mannered people. There was a token Republican among us, and more than a few were Greener than they were Dem, but none stepped outside the bounds of good taste as we shared our impressions of the proceedings. Many of them watched [...]

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Dems

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 25, 2008

Holy moley. I’m capable of being moved by Caroline Kennedy, by Ted Kennedy, by Michelle Obama… by all those real people at the Democratic convention. The contrast with the Republicans… well, it’s Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg compared to Ann Coulter is what it is.

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Waffling…

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 24, 2008

I’m never sure if I should declare myself a Democrat once and for all, or if I should continue to sit on the fence, occasionally dabbling in left wing politics, lending my support to emerging populist movements like the Pendejo Luminoso. Today, on techPresident, Micah Sifry used that High-Marketing-Contrived phrase “World Live Web.” Micah intends [...]

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Daily Cos

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 23, 2008

In honor of the opening of the Presidential campaign… [tags]pundits, do the math[/tags]

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Joe Biden!

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 22, 2008

On the 20th of February we observed here that Michael Dukakis forced Joe Biden out of the running for the 1988 Democratic nomination with a slur regarding plagiarism: In 1987, Joe Biden ran as a Democratic presidential candidate. When the campaign began, he was considered a frontrunner because of his moderate image. However, the campaign [...]

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Market Forces

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 22, 2008

It’s a free market system. So take your best shot… The following essay was lifted in its entirety from Rand Review, Summer 2008. Corporate Counterinsurgency By William Rosenau, Peter Chalk, and Angel Rabasa Historically, the American approach to counterinsurgency has concentrated almost exclusively on building up a threatened state’s ability to develop and marshal the [...]

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Googling Anna Wickham

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 21, 2008

Much of Fitzrovia was developed by minor landowners, and this led to a predominance of small and irregular streets – in comparison with neighbouring districts like Marylebone and Bloomsbury, which were dominated by one or two landowners, and were thus developed more schematically, with stronger grid patterns and a greater number of squares. I like [...]

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Lessig on McCain’s Internet Technology Position

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 20, 2008

McCain says he supports Michael Powell’s “four freedoms,” but what is the truth? How does McCain’s business-as-usual approach to technology help the US achieve global parity in broadband penetration? How does his policy direction differ from what we expect from Obama? [tags]lessig, mccain, obama, network neutrality, broadband penetration[/tags]

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