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Saturday, October 12, 2002

Radio Active Disactivated

Listening to Radio Free Europe under communism was Symbol of defiance for anybody that wanted to show that they weren't in agreement with the regime. My late father was addicted to the Radio Slobodna Europa and like Yann Martel considered himself a pilgrim on the way to a meeting with God. The closure of the radio has not come out of the blue and Havel noted the Radio Free Europe fulfilled important political need in country's communist period ...

Rule of Lawyers; In Lawbreakers we trust to give politicians a helping email

Any standards maintenance function performed by the legal self-regulatory bodies is largely incidental, or at least very much subordinate to their primary focus of maintaining a rigid professional monopoly, allowing lawyers to continue gouging premium prices from captive consumers.

When E-mail Becomes More Than Conversation. Last summer, when journalists in Montana obtained copies of e-mail from the governor's office, they found a story they had never envisioned. A link to a special series about Lawmakers and Lawbreakers.
Let this secret diary remind us of the pure joy of the Bohemian Crikey in his masterpiece entitled Ruben’s Diary.