I know that I can't respond to every piece of right-wing bs that finds its way onto the Internet, but sometimes you have to draw a line....

So Verizon is accusing the FCC of "confiscation without compensation" for trying to impose net neutrality? The easy solution to th...

This post from Mathew Yglesias is very interesting. I've never seen a take on California's budget problems that focused on populatio...

Here's an interesting, and serious, response to yet another one of Ron Paul's wacky beliefs, the idea that the Civil War could have ...

I've always been a sucker for muscle-generated electricity, ever since I read Songs from the Stars by Norman Spinrad as a teenager. A B...

Would it be okay now to talk about having the State of California just take over PG&E. Can we start talking about this in public? PG...

Here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's take on the economics of SOPA and PIPA. I don't see anything to disagree with. http...