Regardless of the context, this is an extraordinary statement for a legislator to say:  •  “"We will look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president."”  •  It is, in fact, out of control as it is not to be controlled as was stated …

Sad to see the recent upsurge in co-opting of Marshall McLuhan as a pal of blogging. Like irony, McLuhan as icon is one of those things that gets bandied about and forced into uncomfortable alliances - apparently without much concern whether the words he wrote bear any relationship to the claims …

Last week I wrote:  •  “I still wonder about (and this is an aspect of what I would call the illusion) the proposition about its massiveness as it relates participation. I do not think I can receive through the internet massively though I participate as a small part of hugeness of the flow into it …

Earlier this week a blogger put his foot in his mouth and a very interesting conversation has been triggered. Ruks wrote the unfortunate sentence "Why do we need Rob?" asking why would you need a university summer course to discuss blogging and other new ideas in communication. Rob responded with …

Growing up in a succession of manses, we had family traditions gleaned from as much as taught by the good reverend father at that end of the table and one of them, those values thingies, was not talking incessantly about other perople and certainly not the sexual behaviors of other folk. We just …

I listened to NPR's The Connection this morning and its roundtable of US religious leaders on the place of Christian religious belief in the present political debate on same-sex marriage. One very interesting aspect is how each person reaches back to a different set of mythmakers, mid-1900s civil …

Via Michael, it is sad to see another cartoon accused of promoting family values other than the families valued by the people who are at it, you know, valuing families at some kind of family-valuing headquarters in Washington DC:  •  “The not-yet-aired episode of "Postcards from Buster" shows the …

Not turning. Not tipping. Just curving points.  •  In saskatchewan - curling points.

He does go on and, like creationist theory spouted to pentecostals, Cory Doctorow's anti-digital rights management posts like the latest at Boing do quite well with the right audience - but he really does not get the reality of the law of copyright that he lives within. Science fiction is much …