The United States uses 40% of the world's oil. If we can cut our consumption by just 10%, through simple incentives, this will have a profound impact on world prices.

The Open Source Thesis is that the values of this medium need to be incorporated into policy, that its reach needs to be extended, and that its business models need to be adopted. That's how we can stop digging the hole we're now digging for ourselves.

When Republicans trot out lines about appeasement, or hold the spectre of George McGovern over Democrats' heads, this should be a cause of rejoicing, not wringing of hands.

It's possible Mel Gibson's career will survive its present nadir. But he has already made himself anathema to nearly half the audience, and I think that's the test.

It's just as hard to do a bad TV show as a good one. These economic rules don't change.

The people who embrace this new notion of personal worth, who embrace the idea of giving their best without expectation or demand, these people will prosper in all the ways which count. That's not idealism any more -- it's reality.

All of these stories were publicly available from the moment they were published, and could have been used (or checked) by any media outlet, yet no TV network did, instead using the charge and (sometimes) a Lamont denial, as though the charge and denial carried equal weight.

Members of the Internet Generation don't understand why government can't work better based on these values. They sign up for classes online, they even take some of those classes online, they do their research online. This is how government should work as well. And politics. And business.

So conservatives don't read Hofstadter because it's uncomfortable. Liberals don't read him because they're living in what he considers a foreign land, where Christianity has become an armored fist, where questioning authority is considered treasonous by those in power, and where the liberal values Hofstadter assumed as universal have been, on the whole, repudiated.

Everything Bernanke has learned will tell him to maintain liquidity in the face of inflation. He won't raise interest rates to maintain asset values. He will see the housing crash as deflation, and in time lower rates. The result will be a collapse of the dollar.