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I attended my first gun show Saturday in southwest Florida where I reside in the winter. I’m not a hardcore gun guy, which is why, when a friend invited me, I took the opportunity to check it out. His text message included the alluring phrase “Guns+B… more »

  Rich guy Tom Perkins has been skewered in the media for his letter to the Wall Street Journal in which he made a grotesque comparison between Kristallnacht and the Occupy movement.  Perhaps we should be less critical of Perkins and others among his s… more »

  So I will watch the game today having, as has become my habit, avoided the media foreplay the Super Bowl has conditioned us to expect over the past forty-six years. I could care less about the comparisons and the stats- I am well past the age where f… more »

  With a tip of the hat to @BruceBartlett for facilitating the use of the term “wanker” to describe those fringe right-wingers who like to call themselves “conservatives”, I present The Conservative Self-Examination List to help my conservative friends… more »

  News Item: Verizon Communications announced today it is buying Intel Media, the chip-makers digital TV subsidiary. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brian Fung’s blog post today at the Washington Post ‘s “The Switch” (“How Verizon plans to weake… more »

  The Federal Court of Appeals ruling last week vacating the FCC’s Open Internet Rules is yet another example of the telecommunications business becoming more oligopolistic. As a consequence of the 2002 FCC ruling that exempted broadband providers from… more »