The Rising Tide

Digg.com has been a boon to the alternative media, including our own Serf City blog, driving traffic to news and opinion items on a meritocracy basis. So it irks me that the suits at Digg are starting to mess around with their successful model by censoring some stories–particularly articles about how to hack high-definition DVDs. […]

Kick off a beautiful weekend at Saturday’s Global Marijuana March.  I got this link today from the New York Drug Reform Meetup Group. Events start in Washington Square Park at 11:00am for a harm reduction rally and health fair.  That’s followed by a parade and then from 2:00 to 6:00 there is a concert/teach-in/rally at

I apologize to our regular readers (yes, I know you’re out there, I can see the site stats) for the dearth of blogging lately. I got thrown off my usual schedule three weeks ago when I got laid off by Citi, along with 17,000 of my colleagues. You would think losing my job would give

I never imagined the Unites States would ever look to Tepoztlán, Mexico for economic and social advice, but yesterday proved differently. Mayor Bloomberg joined City Hall officials yesterday on a fact finding mission. Oportunidades is a social welfare program, celebrated by the World Bank as successfully aiding the poor and needy. In this Mexican town, women

I’ve just added that subtitle to my Logic of Liberty article : The War on CO2 ; which I’m preparing for the next issue of Serf City . And , I just posted the following comment to the Digg of a Vanity Fair article in their current “Green Issue” labeling Warming Denial a “Convenient Untruth”

Rumor has it that the people who want to take away your free speech are at it again. Of course this doesn’t apply to you if you want to stand idly by while the ruling class decides how you should live your life and who gets a piece of the pork paid for by the

  Now that Goveror Spitzer has lots of time on his hands — having changed everything in Albany on day one — he will now focus on new legislation to keep violent video games out of the hands of kids. To quote The Onion, “If only there were some people around whose job it was

The following article was sent to me this morning.   Please read the whole thing before you make a judgement, then read my response at the bottom. *****************************************  THE PEACEFUL MAJORITY – by Wm Haynes  I used to know a man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two. They owned a number of

Since you enjoy spying on American citizens, I figure I’ll just go ahead and address this post to you. In today’s New York Times Magazine, the section “The Way We Live Now” focuses on the Bush administration’s latest “post-9/11 civil-liberties abuse(s),” in the article “Who’s Watching the F.B.I.?” by Jefferey Rosen. According to last month’s report from the inspector general of

Generally I can assume I’m against any new bill introduced in Albany without even reading it, but I’ll make an exception in this instance. Senator DeFrancisco has introduced a bill, S29, which would reduce by half the number of signatures required for designating petitions and independent nominating petitions across the board. Anyone who has ever collected