Really, AT&T?

June 3, 2010

AT&T announced some new ways to screw you iPhone/iPad data pricing plans yesterday. Predictably there was a lot of whinging about the loss of the current $30/month unlimited data plan. And to the extent that there was a lot of iPad advertising that featured this, I agree. But more broadly, I have no problem with [...]

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The interesting thing

May 20, 2010

Ah, Rand Paul how we look forward to your certain demise! Unless Kentucky’s electorate remains out-and-out racist which I suppose remains to be seen but I doubt it. This guy is even more of a bush league wacko than his dad – check out the Rachel Maddow interview if you haven’t seen it. I think [...]

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AA still sucks

May 19, 2010

If I ever end up in a business that makes a practice of screwing its customers, please shoot me. At the top of this inglorious list would be the airlines and most consumer financial institutions. I just got off the phone with American Airlines, trying to make a change to a flight that I erroneously [...]

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Very interesting from the NYT

May 19, 2010

Great Op-Ed in the NYT today from Larry Pressler (who I admit I’d never heard of). I don’t think it’s just his generation, though; I think a lot of this has trickled through to ours.

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If you want to filibuster, you should actually have to

January 11, 2010

Interesting Op-Ed from the NYT about the (dubious) legality and propriety of the filibuster’s current incarnation. It clearly needs to be done away with in its present form. It seems to me it should remain at 60 votes to close off debate, and if you’re on the side that wants to block a vote, you [...]

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