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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
One overlooked "pandering" that gained some traction in the 1990s was when a country awarded a certain TDL (top level domain) used it in global commerce, re-awarding it, via registrars, to companies with enough money. Specifically, I remember Tuvalu, 26 sq miles of ....Pacific Island Paradise. They had the TDL .tv and every US TV station seemed to want to have their call letters attached to that .tv. I don't know how much of the money changing hands ever got to the Tuvalu people ... or even its government...but it seems like the "stamp pandering" of the New Media World. Unfortunately, I don't think that ploy worked too well for the buyers, either.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
