Category Archives: Blogosphere

Google’s censors

The Seablogger says he feels dirty everytime he uses Google now. LGF notes the search giant’s latest political move, leaving up anti-Semitic videos on YouTube but taking down a reasoned anti-Jihadi speech by Robert Spencer at Dartmouth–who has a link to the video elsewhere, though I must say it’s of remarkably poor quality and so echoey it’s hard to understand his words. These kinds of games can kill a business, even one as big as Google–the fifth most valuable corporation in the U.S. with a market value of $217 billion. Me, I’m making it a point to use other search engines, such as Yahoo, Ask, and MSN.

Gas-savers

Here’s three tips for getting the most for your gas money at the station: Pump first thing in the morning, pump slow, and don’t pump when the tanker truck is delivering the stuff. Sounds good.

Whew

Making the 1998 ban on Internet taxes permanent failed. Instead, it’s to be four more years (House) or seven more (Senate), meaning they now need to work out a compromise on the length. Hope they split the difference. But why not permanent? Pols just never met a tax they didn’t like, at least a little.

Sell out/buy in

I enjoy reading Cobb, a conservative black engineer, and descendent of a freed black Union soldier in the Civil War, who is decidedly not one of the race hustlers so prevalent these days. Particularly like his current post on who’s a race sell-out and who isn’t. And this remark by one his commenters:

"If you keep your credit clean, and save some money, you will have an easier time managing your financial life in America. If you don’t commit crimes and treat people ethically so they don’t sue you, you won’t have to worry about the justice system. Them’s the rules."

Yep. Worth the read

Goin’ campin’

We’re off to Krause Springs with the Cub Scouts. No further posting until we return tomorrow. Adios.

Bloggin’ from the hospital

The Seablogger, who is selling his boat-home and moving ashore, is temporarily hospitalized in his longtime struggle with leukemia. Yet he keeps on blogging. Dedication, or boredom? A little of both, it seems.

The gate keeper’s lament

Pity the elite gate keepers of information. They’re being usurped by the Internet and they just can’t stand it. Tough.

Via Instapundit