It is said that Reality Connectivity is 40 gigabits. Surely we do not want to settle for less than Reality? Thus, with 40 gigabits set as our goal, we should call anything less than 400 megabits “tinyband” or even “nanoband”. After all, 400 megabits is only 1% of the goal.

This raises the interesting question of what are today’s legacy connectivity providers so proud of when all they offer is a fraction of one percent of the goal? What is so exciting about a rounding error?

By: William Wood, Ph.D.

When values are the issues and the future is at stake, we are in the world of the unknown. This is where history comes into play. What history tells us, as a people, is that two great forces are fighting a battle for the purpose of control. To me, history’s answer is in the hands of those of us that care about what happens to/or for our children.

By William Wood, Ph.D. & Jock Gill

The May 26 edition of the Boston Globe printed an AP story with some fascinating data on the 2004 election in the United States:

Turnout of blacks, whites said higher in ’04 presidential vote
Rates seen unchanged for Hispanics, Asians

By Associated Press
May 26, 2005

WASHINGTON — Whites and blacks voted in the 2004 presidential elections at higher rates than they did four years earlier, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.

That was not the case with Hispanics, one of the most heavily courted groups of voters by the political parties. The voting rates did not change for Hispanics or Asian-Americans.

For too long the Democratic party has fallen into the zero sum trap of gender and identity politics. For too long one group has feared that anything given to another group must come at their expense. The GOP has been very effective splitting us along our identity lines in using this against us. It is time for us to take steps to adopt an all inclusive, win-win, strategy based upon justice and civil liberties for all. This is a strategy of high values for escaping from the identity conflicts that have plagued us for years.

It is past time for an interim accounting of the results of 52 months of faith-based ideological policies implemented by the Bush – Cheney presidency. We must evaluate the quality of the current administration’s stewardship of our country from the perspective of our children and grandchildren. As engaged participants in America’s great experiment in democratic self-government, how well are we doing our job to insure that we hand off the nation in the best possible condition?

In 2025, one generation from now, if we look comprehensively at the whole picture do we anticipate that 8 years of faith-base ideological policies will have increased or decreased the sustainability, security and safety of our:

Economy
Health?
Education?
Environment?
Civil Liberties?
Political culture
International Stature?

The ability of the incumbent powers in the center to control our national narrative, and the when, where, and how it is told, is disintegrating before our eyes. The power of the Right Wing to manipulate turbo capitalism’s integration of ownership with government regulations is failing.

Newsweek may have caved to pressure from the Bush White House. The military, in my daughter’s words, may have become embedded in our main stream media. In stark contrast, however, some vlogers are showing that we the people can be fooled some of the time, but not all of us can be fooled all of the time. We do have the power to speak truth to power.

By Dana Blankenhorn:

A lot of liberals are very upset right now over actions of the Bush Administration.

People are dying. Women are being denied their rights. Gays are being denied their rights. The judiciary is being perverted. The media is being perverted.

My reaction? Ho, hum.

When the Federalist Papers were written in the early days of our country, the total population of the United States was less than four million people. Today, over half the States in the union are larger than that. The country has gotten much larger. However, when the Federalist Papers were written there was not the [...]

I’m cross-posting a piece I just posted at Extreme Democracy, the site for the book Mitch Ratcliffe and I just published. My intent here was to explain some of the thinking behind the book. It’s a bit of a ramble. When I first tried to write a book similar to Extreme Democracy, in 1996-97, I [...]

The New Yorker Magazine has just published, in the May 09, 2005 edition, the final segment of the the well researched and detailed, three part essay The Climate of Man by Elizabeth Kolbert.

In a follow-up to Jock’s posting about the Main Stream Media’s inability to admit their complicity in Bush’s rush to war in Iraq, I have just received a press release from the Progressive Democrats of America:

PDA Makes National Call of Support for Congressional Letter Demanding Investigation of British Intelligence Leak on Iraq Invasion Strategy