by Gil Friend | May 11, 2005 | Politics
[Business Week]: United Airlines gained a significant financial victory with court approval to dump its four pension plans but faces a tough challenge to win back the support of angry employees. Oh, we do so like to carry on about the ‘rule of law’ and the...
by Gil Friend | Feb 5, 2005 | Politics
[Social Design Notes]: Despite increasing consolidated and homogenous media and increasingly pervasive Internet access, ideology exists spatially. Six links in that posting. Click ’em all. You’ll see a fascinating range of cartographic interpretations on...
by Gil Friend | Feb 3, 2005 | Politics
ACLU Pizza and Defanging ‘the Matrix’ Coming to a homeland near you, unless…
by Gil Friend | Jan 30, 2005 | Politics
Corporate Welfare Runs Amok. Reforms to the corporate tax system must be debated on their merits, not under cover of some phony label like ‘job creation.’ [NYT > Opinion] Congress’s ostensible purpose for allowing the holiday is to unleash a flood...
by Gil Friend | Jan 30, 2005 | Politics
[John Robb]: WSJ. The US trade deficit rose to $60.3 billion in November (is there a link to the elections?). A new record. Despite a sinking dollar, the sale of US goods abroad dropped (down 2.3%). This is terrible news. The...
by Gil Friend | Jan 6, 2005 | Politics
Two very interesting, and very different, big picture views of our current world and current situation have come across my view recently. Both are worth your attention. Meta-historian William Irwin Thompson, writes, with his typical grand sweep, of Al Qaeda, the...
