Your Revolution Was Dumb and it Filled Us With Refugees
An alternate view of the often white-washed American Revolution. www.bunkhistory.org/resources/642
Category: Politics
Why is Congress so dumb? – The Washington Post
I always wondered why so much interesting legislation was passed during Nixon’s era. Turns out that “Congress remade its committees in the 1970s to challenge Richard Nixon’s presidency and move Read More …
Why BC’s Carbon Tax Worked | The Tyee
Good article on how to implement a carbon tax. Ramp up slowly. Make it revenue neutral. Use revenue to help citizens adversely affected by it. Two shrewd components prevented a Read More …
Go Arnie! The Governator takes on gerrymandering
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/schwarzenegger-will-back-more-gerrymandering-campaigns/575434/
Imagining the “Trump in Europe” opera – Buffo
Delightful. AFTER decades of tense relations with China, Richard Nixon in 1972 undertook a pathbreaking visit to the communist country. So historic was the American president’s trip that John Adams Read More …
The Fox of local news
www.economist.com/news/united-states/21740003-and-they-also-reveal-clout-sinclair-broadcast-group-orders-local-news-anchors
How Zuckerberg’s Facebook is like Gutenberg’s printing press
A cautionary tale from historian Niall Ferguson. — Read on www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/03/28/daily-202-how-zuckerberg-s-facebook-is-like-gutenberg-s-printing-press/5abb045930fb042a378a2ebb/
Interesting developments.
https://www.ft.com/content/3c357c9a-d9dc-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482
Google should not have given an outspoken engineer the sack
https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21726080-larry-page-its-co-founder-should-have-written-ringing-detailed-rebuttal-google-should-not?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170810n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/na/54751/n
Ellsberg vs Snowden
Leakers vs Hackers. An important distinction. Leakers have a specific message. Hackers just want to reveal how clever they are. Message vs data dump. Signal vs noise. New Yorker. http://nyer.cm/fNrjScL
