“If Wall Street companies can count on being rescued like banks, then they need to be regulated like banks.”
This is a pretty good op-ed piece in the NYT on our current financial crisis and why there may need to be more regulation on Wall Street.
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Taming the Beast - New York Times
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Monday, March 24, 2008 @ 07:33 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Obama wows Casper; Clinton next - The Denver Post
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, March 8, 2008 @ 16:43 CST by Daniel Andrlik
“Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in Casper today that he would restore respect for law in the White House by reviewing every executive order issued by President George W. Bush and discarding any deemed unconstitutional.”
Wow, keeping that promise alone would be an amazingly needed change in our government.
20 minutes or so on why [Lessig is] 4Barack
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, February 7, 2008 @ 12:38 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Lawrence Lessig explains why he is for Barack Obama. He makes a well-reasoned and compelling argument, that’s well worth your time to watch.
Norwegian minister: closed formats, vendor lockin are unacceptable
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 @ 09:26 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Wow, first the Netherlands, and now Norway (although to a lesser degree). The dominoes begin to fall. Are you nervous at all, Microsoft?
Lakota Sioux have NOT withdrawn from the US
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Monday, December 24, 2007 @ 15:56 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Excellent bit of fact-checking here on the part of Daily Kos. Many folks were intrigued by the possibility of Lakota succession, including myself. That doesn’t make up for us all doing sloppy research and re-posting this stuff without verifying it first.
UPDATE: This is maybe not so great fact-checking going on here. I’ve been getting a flurry of emails indicating that the Daily Kos’ research is pretty one-sided and to some degree bogus. That being said, I still stand by my point of the problem of the “echo-chamber.” I don’t have the time or energy to cover this story as thoroughly as I’d like to, so I’ll refrain from getting too much farther into it, and let the facts work themselves out over time.
Christmas in Detention
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Sunday, December 23, 2007 @ 11:44 CST by Daniel Andrlik
My friend Christina, who works in immigration law, has penned this powerful post regarding how immigrants in detention will be spending their holiday season. I’m not the only one linking to this or quoting the same passage, but it’s such a powerful image:
“One of the detention centers has wreaths hung on the front security doors. These blue metal doors are the only gaps in a field of barbed wire. They buzz when you open them and slam shut behind you to remind you that yes, you really are locked inside now, and you can only leave if the guards permit you to. You’re at their mercy. But, hey, wreaths! Lush ones! Aren’t you armed with Christmas cheer now!
“I sat outside that cheerily bedecked detention center on a bird shit stained bench while I told a five year old that neither Santa nor God nor any of the other deities in a child’s pantheon could bring his daddy home from Christmas. Daddy will be spending his fourth Christmas in immigration detention, a sentence 400% percent longer than any he served for a criminal conviction.”
Read the whole post, it’s one of the most moving essays I’ve read in a while.
Lakota withdraw from treaties, declare independence from U.S. - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Friday, December 21, 2007 @ 08:51 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Wow, the Lakota are seceding from the United States! It’ll be interesting to see where this goes. UPDATE: This appears to be a lot less clear cut than it sounds from this article.
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds | Threat Level from Wired.com
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, November 8, 2007 @ 20:03 CST by Daniel Andrlik
I’ll agree with this author that Hushmail’s candor is appreciated but this is why you cannot trust encryption to a firm. If you are worried about your privacy, and want to use encryption, you have to handle it on the client side. Learn how to use PGP, and set it up in your browser/mail client.
Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why - New York Times
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, September 20, 2007 @ 09:45 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
“The door remains closed to Nalini Ghuman, an assistant professor who is British and who had lived and worked in this country for 10 years before her exclusion last August.” Sigh, it’s sad that when I read articles like this I’m not surprised anymore.
US attorney general Gonzales resigns | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Monday, August 27, 2007 @ 09:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Gonzales resigns just shortly after Rove leaves. Rats leaving the sinking ship?
