Who are they?
Bill Moyers lashes out against the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to a large audience at the National Conference on Media Reform:
Who are they? I mean the people obsessed with control using the government to threaten and intimidate; I mean the people who are hollowing out middle class security even as they enlist the sons and daughters of the working class to make sure Ahmad Chalabi winds up controlling Iraq’s oil; I mean the people who turn faith-based initiatives into Karl Rove’s slush fund; who encourage the pious to look heavenward and pray so as not to see the long arm of privilege and power picking their pockets; I mean the people who squelch free speech in an effort to obliterate dissent and consolidate their orthodoxy into the official view of reality from which any deviation becomes unpatriotic heresy. That’s who I mean. And if that’s editorializing, so be it. A free press is one where it’s okay to state the conclusion you’re led to by the evidence.
Holy crap, there's audio too.
Knowledge and Power
Heard today on lwn.net:
... knowledge is exactly like power - something to be distributed as widely as humanly possible, for the betterment of all. -- jd
Word!
Guido's 10-line Python Scripts
My 10-line python scripts are just like everyone else's except I wrote a script to interpret them. -- Guido von Rossum
Thomas H. Huxley Quotes