I’ve added several items to my site for the April 6, 2004 Madison School Board Election:
This initiative was inspired by Dave Winer, Glenn Reynolds, Doc Searls, Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmor, Jay Rosen and many others….
School lunch has been a hot topic for many Madison parents. Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters has another approach….
Alice Waters is taking her message of eating healthfully, organically and locally to middle schoolers in their lunchrooms. If she builds a better sloppy Joe, will they eat it? By PEGGY ORENSTEIN
The Personal Video Recorder (PVR) Tivo has garnered many fans (though it’s far from a runaway winner).
Some bloggers wonder why Tivo has not been a big hit. Doc Searls nails it…
Today’s windy/cold weather makes French Polynesia very tempting…. (Quicktime VR Tours)
(From Quicktime News)
NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) – Warren Buffett, the world’s second-richest person, wants to pay more taxes. And he wants the rest of corporate America to pay more too.
In his annual letter [196K PDF] to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (nyse: BRKa – news – people) holding company, released on Saturday, the 73-year-old Buffett said Berkshire’s taxes rose more than eleven-fold to $3.3 billion from 1995 to 2003, as profits rose ten-fold to $8.15 billion.
During the same period, federal income taxes paid by all U.S. companies fell by 16 percent, to $132 billion.
“We hope our taxes continue to rise in the future — it will mean we are prospering — but we also hope that the rest of corporate America antes up along with us,” said Buffett, who has previously criticized Bush administration tax policy.
Visit Berkshire Hathaway’s site to view Buffett’s annual letters, from 1977 to 2003…..
Affendy Awalludin shares a very nice Quicktime VR Hot bath in a natural pool scene from Perpignan in the South of France. (650KB)
Doc Searls has some useful commentary on a recent PBS Cringely column (The Curse of the Hundred Bagger) regarding the stagnant economy.
Searls references Peter Drucker’s Post Capitalist Society with respect to the declining utility of large corporations (he’s right on).
Moveon.org generated quite a bit of publicity with it’s anti-Bush movies (CBS refused to run these during the SuperBowl!).
There are more here (from my friend Steve).
I’m amazed that the candidates continue to spend so much of their money on TV…..
President Bush has posted his TV ads here. John Kerry’s videos.
Dave Farber’s IP List has an interesting post on controlled economies:
Einar Stefferud writes:
“Reminds me of efforts to [support] Wisconsin.
I well remember how we had to buy margarine by mail order and hand mix
in the yellow coloring because it was against to law there to sell it
any other way.
And, the law required that all apple pie served in any state institution,
like the University of Wisconsin had to be served with a slice of Wisconsin
Cheese. Most of that cheese went into the garbage because most people did
not want cheese with their apple pie.
This kind of foolishness does not help an economy to grow jobs. It just
causes stagnation and waste and loss of incentives.
And higher taxes to pay for the waste.
Economies do not thrive under central control.
Economies and Internets do better without central control of details.
And, in the international situation, this is the beginning of a trade war,
ala the beginning to the 1930’s depression, which lasted for approximately
10 years until WW-II finally bailed us out.
BTW, the trade wars were a major aspect of the causes of WW-II.”
From Dave Winer:
A milestone case study from the Shorenstein Center PDF [324K] was released today. It tells the story of Trent Lott, his talk at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party, and how the news flowed through professional channels, to the blogosphere, and back, ultimately resulting in Lott’s resignation as majority leader of the US Senate.
Fascinating, and it’s great that this report is publicly available.