New Orleans Here we find a central dilemma of our time in a quote from author, intellectual Alain de Botton in the book review section the Times: Question The last book that made you furious? Answer I got very angry about the food industry reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s excellent “Eating Animals.” Now a few years later, …
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New York Times Whitewashes Comcast; Is Connect2Compete a Ghost PR Program?
New Orleans In an amazingly shallow, puff piece that might almost have come out of the Comcast marketing and public relations department, “Mixed Response to Comcast in Expanding Net Access” by Amy Chozick about the only dark spot in this incredible whitewash. Comcast set up shop in Chicago in May 2011, a few months after its …
Pigs Flying in Florida as Even Republicans Call for Voting Reforms
New Orleans Yes, it snows in July in Florida. Yes, pigs are on the runway in Miami getting ready to fly, and it is not because of loosening travel restrictions in Cuba, but because finally after more than a dozen years of being the case study for anti-democratic vote suppression and election chaos, even Republican governor …