In retrospect you can disagree on his policies (I do) and especially his pardon of Nixon in the name of friendship (I do again). But he was a good and decent man, at a time when that was enough, when that was what we needed.

In the end this nonsense, like Whitacre's nonsense about eliminating net neutrality, is based on the insane idea that, with costs constantly decreasing and service levels arbitrarily reduced, a monopoly can be maintained regardless of the political environment.

I got my first Evite spam over the weekend.

Fawning coverage of anyone is always transparent. Propaganda is usually easy to spot. And the blogosphere itself is far too large, varied and diverse to bribe effectively.

The reason today's parents won't let their kids have access to the Internet is because they themselves are ruled by fear. And that is the real problem.

Where people are poor the environment suffers, and these lowland environments are crucial to cleaning our water, recharging our aquifers, and putting oxygen into our air. The tree farmers are selling the land to developers.

If history is any guide, 2007 is going to be a bad year. By my reckoning we're a year removed from a Generational Crisis election, one that will define our politics for the rest of my life, and most of the lives of my children. Such years are always filled with terrifying events which make the nature of the next crisis crystal clear to everyone.

No one can know it all. Gather all the data on all the Web to you and you still won't have the answer. It's the messy experimentation of a truly free market -- in finance, in ideas, in faiths, in ideals -- that creates strength.

Get some fiber into your city's diet.

Get some fiber into your city's diet.