American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

The showdown over the shoot down

Right now Kim Jong Il is fueling a missile for a test to see if he could hit the United States in a nuclear confrontation. In an effort to stop him, the Bush Administration is leaking that they may shoot down the missile if the North Korean’s do in fact test it. They have readied [...]

The government is watching and I don’t care

I’ve experienced a significant shift in my thinking over the past 5 Years. I realized this when I saw the news that the U.S. government is looking at international banking transactions to find money moving between international and U.S. based Al-Queda operatives.
I used to care when heard about secret government surveillance programs. I got livid [...]

So much for the fifty states strategy…

With Howard Dean in charge of the DNC, 2006 was supposed to be the election year the Democratic party took the fight to all 50 states, not just the handful of swing states we think we need to win a presidential election. While the rest of the blogosphere is obsessing over how we lost Ohio [...]

Sergey’s Mea Culpa on Google Censorship in China

Sergey Brin admitted that Google may have taken the wrong course in choosing to censor search results in China. He also suggested that Google may eventually shutdown its China-based censored service, if they choose to take a “principled approach”, but acknowledge that the “principled approach” is not the course Google is currently taking.
It’s an interesting [...]

Film Studios Remain Pigheaded on Digital Films

By Jason Ihle
A few weeks ago Warner Bros. became the first major film company to strike a deal to make its films available to purchase and download on the Internet. Movies would be available online when they are released on DVD. Their deal was with MovieLink. Just last Wednesday Disney announced it had struck a [...]

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