January 25th, 2006

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Joel Stein, “I Don’t Support the Troops”

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Prince Harry

Erstwhile Time columnist Joel Stein has bravely come out swinging against the American soldier. Here is a Yahoo! News story on it, and here is the original column.

Photo is of Prince Harry, who may be deployed to the front in Iraq.

Its all about the money

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Remember a couple weeks back when Google rejected a Department of Justice request for a random sampling of search queries in a government pornography probe. Well there are obvious free speech issues. Google was right in stating they would vigorously fight the probe.

But when it comes to emerging markets Google is more than willing to filter results as directed by the Chinese government. When money is on the line Google proves it will compromise its posistions.