Saturday, July 07 2001

Brian McConnell : Peer-to-Peer Taxation

I find it hard to imagine this as anything but crank put out by O'Reilly to stir the pot around the idea of peer-to-peer, in anticipation of their upcoming conference on the same subject. I say this because the only discussion about the network here is the buzzword-bingo that tries to obfuscate a seriously ugly political agenda. Essentially, this guy is advocating downloading all the government's responsibilities (read:money) on to the private sector and replacing political debate with ballot initiatives. In this context, the only role the network plays is as a tool to distract the masses from what's really going on.

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From the shooting fish in a bowl department : "It's easier for him to stay on message

when the interview lasts only a few minutes." This, of course, is the first thing they teach you to say about the party leader in press secretary school.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is tirade

| source : web1913 | Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review. | source : wn | tirade n : a violent denunciation [syn: {philippic}, {broadside}]

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