From: Truth Out ~ This Is What Revolution Looks Like From: Bill In Exile Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your [...]

From: Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in his New York Times blog. It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. And all you can wonder is what took people so long to figure that out? But there is more…

I love reading Samantha Kane’s tweets because you get so much more than the usual rambling on about people pirating the author’s work or the implied “how important money is to the author” because they are so done wrong by the big bad online world blah blah blah. If you have not figured it out [...]

From: Bill In Exile From: Ian Welsh ~ Public opinion is irrelevant Most countries in the developed world do not have functioning democracies in any meaningful sense. You can vote for party A, B, or C, but they will all do substantially the same things, differing only in how fast they do them and the [...]

From: The Idea Logical Blog ~ Where will bookstores be five years from now? The two variables are connected: the further away from you is the closest decent store, the more likely you are to increase your purchasing online. And the more you purchase online, the more likely the store nearest to you is to [...]

From: CNN ~ Study: E-books take longer to read than print The study found that reading speeds declined by 6.2 percent on the iPad and 10.7 percent on theKindle compared to print. However, Nielsen conceded that the differences in reading speed between the two devices were not “statistically significant because of the data’s fairly high [...]