NY Times on the Mother Jones of Silicon Valley
"Why do I spend so much time in the heart of this new economy working with unions to build a voice for working people?" she said. "It has everything to do with whether we can revitalize an institution that so many people in this country depend on. It's the only vehicle in this country that can balance the political landscape."
Thomas L. Friedman
"I visited Microsoft four years ago to interview some of its top managers. I asked them how big their Washington office was. They proudly answered that they had no Washington office. Underlying their answer was a contempt for Washington, and for government in general -- a contempt that runs right through the high-tech community. The techies have no sense of what it is about the U.S. system that enables them to do what they do. It's not just about electrons and bandwidth. It's also about rules and institutions."
I like the Internet as much the next person
Arts & Ideas : Censorship on the Web
"A new law makes it a federal crime for commercial websites to make available materials, such as pornography, that are considered harmful to minors. Does this law, which forces website operators to censor their sites and make judgments about what is harmful to children, violate the First Amendment?"
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Four songs
from Ani DiFranco's new album. via
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On that note, I leave you today with the Wisdom of Bendypig (passed along by mapgirl), which says : "Try drinking coffee through a bendy straw, you can never take yourself too seriously doing that."