February 2008
8 posts
Blast Comcast fast: at last, their past harassed
Today I was catching up on some old blog posts and I came across one written by my good friend Kevin Donovan over at Copyrightings, his blog about copyrights and other intellectual property issues.
His post was about Comcast’s recent attempt to keep the public out of an important meeting at Harvard. They paid people to fill seats, and some were photographed sleeping through the meeting...
It's far from over →
The Duke lacrosse situation is going nowhere fast. Three lawsuits have been filed in the last three months. The article I link to is on the university’s daily newspaper, The Chronicle’s, website. Most articles get no more than five comments; this one received 88.
“If you lock your keys inside your car, fail to coax your cat down from a tree,...”
– from Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today. Do you agree with these authors? Or do you think that it is the government’s job to respond to every request for help or justice, no matter the size or gravity?
“This is just as important as stopping nuclear proliferation. This is just as...”
– New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg, talking about fighting global warming. I agree, obviously. America, it seems, is always intensely focused on the short term and barely focused on the long term. Nukes and global warming could both destroy our planet. (source / via)
I consider this song highly relevant to this blog....
“I didn’t major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too.”
– Mike Huckabee on his decision to continue his campaign for president. (source)
This is why I want to become a teacher →
I picked up a free magazine at Duke today called Current. It is “for college students, by college students,” and is run by Newsweek. A girl from my high school, Natasha Saiyed, wrote two articles, including one about a band (The Hush Sound) from right near my Chicagoland area hometown.
The article that I link to here is called “Crime and Betterment,” and it was...