Is the Web 2.0 Bubble about to Burst?

After reading your remarks concerning the impending bubble burst of the Web 2.0 Internet sector, I was immediately reminded why people in my profession, sociology, are critical of economists: You have a tenacity to conduct vulgar forms of reductionism that render the phenomenal field your are investigating absent of the preponderance of social dynamics that [...]

Combatting American Empire

The lexicon, democracy, has an etymology, which can be traced back to the Ancient Greek word for the mob, which is translated into our own language with its Roman alphabet into the term, demos. The term, demos, with the suffix typically attached to it, forms the referring expression, democracy; which we assert to be [...]

Legislation criminalizing Misleading Hypertext and URL’s for purposes of exposing Minors to Pornography?

The Congress has passed yet more assinine legislation making it a crime to use misleading links to fool minors into viewing obscene material. I do not know who exactly does this type of chicannery, nor do I know what type of kick somebody would get from doing this, but, nevertheless, Congress, apparently, is certain that [...]

Sane People are beginning to wake up to the Realities of the Israeli State-sponsored Terror

Here is an article that was posted on the Alternet.  It is good to see that some people are beginning to lose their blind support of the Israelis, right or wrong, and coming to terms with the truth concerning who the real terrorist networks are in the Middle East:

George performs the dreaded G8 Wave…

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America and China; economic adversaries who share the same bed

For those of us who are often dismayed over the American inability to conduct effective trade negotiations with China – especially in respect to the state controlled evaluation of the Chinese currency – this short explanation as to why this drama of trade negotiations performed by politic officials in the U S government and their [...]

One tiny Step toward Web 2.0

 
The emergence of Web 2.0 has often attracted a gluttony of negative commentary by people who do not entirely understand what Web 2.0 is and, subsequently, what it entails.  Now, there is some truth to the relationship between Web 2.0 and the quantum increases in bandwidth that are primarily being created through the investments of ISP’s.  However, the [...]

Senator Stevens; extraordinarily stupid Human or below average Beast?

Anyone who has listened to Stevens’ polemic during the Senate hearing on Net-neutrality can share in both the pain and laughter resulting from the realization that one of the most influential Senators when it comes to appropriations and other related matters is of an intellect that is so gravely substandard that it is difficult to [...]

Debunking the Old New-left of American Politics

Like all dimensions of the identity politics associated with the New-left, the Green Party’s philosophical underpinnings consist of a bullet list of values. It is the purpose of this essay to demonstrate that such an approach to politics consists of merely creating paradoxical tangles of propositions that result in a philosophy that is [...]