A Wonderfullyrich World

I just read a blog post by one of my favorite regular reads these days, James Fallows is talking about the expansion of the Beijing metro system in the time he’s been there and how it’s improved his ability to get around as well as the quality of life.
What struck me is that DC finally [...]

I am in N’awlins with Angela’s father and family for thanksgiving, which is a well recieved chance to break the washington dc bubble. Everytime I leave DC for some other part of the US, the muzzle comes on. I forget how free we are in DC to talk about the congess or presidental hapenings [...]

A quote from Brave New World television movie from 1998.  (Yes, yes, the movie wasn’t at all like the book, but I think it can be valued for this quote alone.)

John Cooper: Why can’t everyone read shakesphere?
Mustapha Mond:    Anyone can, but why would they want to?  It wouldn’t mean anything too them. Our world isn’t [...]

Everyone who sent a letter to their senator’s about the Intercarrier compensation should be flush with victory.  You did it!  You managed to get the FCC to open the Intercarrier Compensation to a public forum.  Yes it’s a small victory, but still, well done!
On a day where we all get to exercise one of the [...]

So the FCC want’s to change the intercarrier compensation levels without public comment on Election Day (Nov 4).  It looks like they are trying to slide a regulation change in while the hub-bub is about the presidential race.  The proposed change would, so far as I understand it, burden the little guys so much many [...]

I don’t mean to be the typical indignant blogger, but I thought I’d express my frustration with our government oversight given that according to this article with the new york times, we just gave these banks a 700 billion dollar blank check. This blank check business enrages me, as there are only so many straws [...]

I added a feature to my blog, for the future and for accessiblity.
This RSS Feed is an audio podcast of my blog, converted via text-to-speech software.  If you have an iPod or similar device that you want and would rather listen to my post rather then read them, well now you have the option.
It’s still [...]

For those of you who didn’t know, I’m back in school.  I’m taking one class at a time via Colorado State University’s Global Campus, aka online.  I haven’t done school work in 3 years or more, and I still hate ignorance, stupidity, and dumb learning as much as ever, but I’m not getting any younger [...]

I just read both the NY Times and Washington Post reporting on the weekend’s big Wall Street story, and–espeically after reading this story in the Times about The Heart of the Problem– I find myself remembering This American Life episode on the “Giant Pool of Money” which is floating around the internet and is by [...]

We just lost another of the 1019′ers (or wait…is that Keefer’s), but perhaps soon we’ll have another. We’ll always have the memories.
(Ben is getting union’ed in UK and left us saturday, he’s the one in the back middle of the picture.)

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