If China's leaders ever learn the basic lesson of dealing with the Internet -- first listen -- then watch out.

One forgotten Goldwater fact is no one of consequence wanted to be his running mate. He finally had to enlist party chair William Miller of New York, who was so much of a nobody that he ended his career doing the first AmEx "Do you know who I am" ad.

Hard to see Coulter as the uber-hippie? Shouldn't be. Little Ben Domenechs are getting off on Coulter's sound just like their stoned uncles got off on Slick.

A Thesis explains a Crisis, an Anti-Thesis rises to challenge this and fails, then an Excess leads to a new Crisis for the next generation.

Cole is better off. Any University that lets money or political influence trump its academics is, by definition, not an elite university. Elihu Yale has become Bob Jones.

Kevin Martin complies with their requests because (for now) they have the money. And thus the U.S. Internet becomes more-and-more like that of Mexico every year.

In the end it doesn't matter that much where work is done. So long as it's done. And so long as you can defend it, explain it, and implement it.

We can't grow a post-industrial economy with a Chinese Internet. If people are constantly watching what they say and who they connect with, they are going to censor themselves, and good ideas are going to be left unthought.

More to the point, any marketer can be a publisher.

The Bells in this case occupy the political center, the corporatist agreement of establishment Washington. But in a time of excess, such a center never holds.