The carriers have worked themselves up to the point they believe that their network is the Internet when it’s just some plumbing we have to repurpose as a transport despite its flaws and chokepoints.

In the case of non-hydrocarbon energy, the top floor will be most relevant at first. If you can get your costs under that top floor, you can be profitable. And we need to keep that floor high as far as we can see, in order to stimulate all kinds of domestic supply.

If the Bells and cable companies can favor one set of speakers over another, because they paid an additional tariff to use "their" access to "you," then those favored speakers are more free to be heard than you are, or I am.

Just as Wallace was used as a tool to turn a big swath of the Democratic Party into "Reagan Democrats," so The Democratic Leadership Council now hopes to use Bloomberg against the GOP.

In the tradition of A Modest Proposal, Bob Frankston has turned the net neutrality debate on its head with a brilliant satire called Paying by the Stroll.

I wish I could be like Vixie and live in my own little world, venturing out only once in a while to tell everyone else they are screwing up before returning to my mountain. But I can't. I don't have Vixie's head for programming languages -- English is the only one I know.

Those who bought AT&T before its break-up, and held the pieces through the enactment of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, did quite well. Those who kept their pieces as the industry consolidated and AT&T was brought together again have done poorly.

It's a balance sheet approach, not an income statement

In the last few months cable TV news has moved en masse from cheerleading for the Bush Administration's failed policies to actively ignoring reality.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. And it doesn't mean they won't get you, either.