by Gil Friend | Nov 27, 2003 | Politics
Berkeley IP Log: Rep. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., has introduced the Freedom to Read Protection Act that would repeal the library and bookstore provisions of the Patriot Act. Apparently, a letter written by Assistant Attorney General Daniel Bryant to Senator Patrick...
by Gil Friend | Sep 1, 2003 | Politics
Another Friday Outrage. In another demonstration of how electricity deregulation has gone wrong, the energy companies accused of manipulating California’s markets were let off the hook. By Paul Krugman. [New York Times: Opinion] Many outrages in Krugman’s...
by Gil Friend | Aug 31, 2003 | Politics
[San Francisco Chronicle]: Economics reporter Sam Zuckerman continues his excellent ‘fact based’ series on what’s really up with the California economy. The widely held view that California is unusually harsh in taxing its people — which...
by Gil Friend | Aug 28, 2003 | Politics
And speaking of pathetically disappointing action and lack thereof from political ‘leaders’: Dust and Deception. Under pressure from the White House, the E.P.A. systematically misled New Yorkers about the health risks of the World Trade Center’s...
by Gil Friend | Aug 24, 2003 | Politics
a klog apart: Asked what he’ll cut, even an example of a program that should be cut, he said that decision willæhave to wait until after he is governor. After all, he’s not a typical politician. Riiiight. Might be that it gets _so_ stupid that even...
by Gil Friend | Aug 20, 2003 | Politics
Brian Eno, writing in The Guardian: …the new American approach to social control is so much more sophisticated and pervasive that it really deserves a new name. It isn’t just propaganda any more, it’s ‘prop-agenda’. It’s not so much...
