Yesterday Jay wrote the following about his own comment:  •  “David, my bad...  •  If the CPC wants to advertise on Pam Anderson's left nipple it's cool with me. (But it was a fun rant nonetheless.)”  •  My immediate reaction was that he would never have written that if we had been talking about a …

Good article in the New York Times abut the slog that is being a struggling rock star via the web:  •  “In the early days of the Hold Steady, Kubler fielded only a few e-mail messages a day, and a couple of "friend" requests on MySpace. But by this spring, he was receiving more than 100 …

...and what are we becoming? I know I go on but this new report on the state of privacy and surveillance technologies in the UK reminded me of this one about blogging, especially this passage:  •  “...before the telegraph, for example, almost all ordinary people read entire newspapers and were …

What makes you a fan? I just wrote somebody this:  •  “I actually like sports. I like watching good players play games well and a good game is a damn fine thing. In 2006, I cheered watching a Watertown baseball comeback, a Syracuse football romp over a weak team as well as got to shout "Yale …

Given all the fluidity and hype about what can be expected from the Internet, it is interesting to note that good old cash remains king. Even Gord indicates some sympathy for the question of whether the medium maximizes message or truth. Interesting to see the two concepts of ethics and Internet …

Yesterday I opened up this one with a consideration that Yule represents something pan-Western that might be leveraged as a non-legal foundation element. I think it is important to consider the non-legal elements, perhaps if only first, as the real issue is the need to establish cultural …

Speaking of political campaigns, a subject most facinating, what we are witnessing to our south is even more interesting than questions Iggeriffic. Consider this:  •  “As this country's most outspoken and polarizing social conservative, the two-term Pennsylvania Republican senator has been in …

We were out for dinner last night at the excellent Curry Original when the idea of unproductive idle work popped into my head. One of the problems with modernity is the focus on productivity. Sure it is the cornerstone of the economic miracle that is the hybrid capitalist welfare state, but it …

I think this is the Europe a certain class of faith-based North Americans fear. This is Old Europe. This is the communalist who would lay his or her individuality down on the railway track abandoning all fiscal, ethical and political propriety for the glee of being something together. Consider …