We must redouble our efforts in service to the message of the great Flying Spaghetti Monster. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

It is the scourge of the neo-con that has reduced the party to this. A philosophy born from European elitism, the neo-cons have taken the essential American nature out of Republican conservatism and replaced it with grasping, self-righteous form that has its roots in feudalism, the ideological antithesis to that of the nation's founders.

... but with clowns like these in charge, "enlightened democracy" is a long way off.

... someone with far greater provenance in this matter, than you, already decided it should be free.

It is widely misrepresented that Franklin proposed Daylight Savings Time. In fact, what he actually was proposing was a means to extract more work from people, or "Daylight Slavings Time". The "l" apparently was dropped in the transition to manuscript.

Silicon Valley is little but a microcosm of a larger opportunistic/predatory-capitalist mentality which has grown ascendant in modern society's markets. The signs of infection predate even the oft-quoted, "There's a sucker born every minute." We have built a system that rewards a very fundamental form of corruption and seem to have little will to reform it.

... of a taller USS Monitor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor

Online teaching is really just one step removed from tech support. That's not real teaching any more than a video game is real life.

I suspect, should Google follow through, the French would turn from traditional media to Twitter and aggregators in such numbers and with such persistence as to gravely damage traditional media's prospects.

As people embrace specialization, and the knowledge silos that come with it, no one is left with a broader comprehension of how the pieces fit together. In an infected system, a malignancy can easily spiral out of control with no one the wiser. Take global warming, for example. A basic knowledge of chemistry and the work of John Tyndall 150 years ago provides the most elementary demonstration of how human activities have to be contributing to environmental warming. Should we have economists steering our economy who have no understanding of the relationships between chemistry, our lives, our planet, our very existence?

A good deal of what is lacking in the Libertarian manifesto involves a failure to properly appreciate the finer qualities of applied cynicism. Here, you have an object lesson.

... China's version of the "47 percent", no doubt.