Check out these gems from Newsweek, 1995: Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.Baloney. Do our computer […]
In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009, responding to reports of fighting on the BART in Oakland, officers arrived on the scene and detained a group of young men. One of the officers, Johannes Mehserle, pinned a young man to the ground, face-down. The young man, Oscar Grant III, may or may […]
This past weekend, as many of you already know, I traveled to Washington, D.C. for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. I had purchased plane tickets barely twenty minutes after the event was announced, honestly, along with a few friends and colleagues. I couldn’t resist – after wasting a Saturday […]