Each medium unleashes optimism, experimentation; only 2 consolidate into an empire, monopoly. (Tim Wu, The Master Switch) dld.bz/F639

Twitter - not just technological progress but a form of human regress dld.bz/EakA

Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: To Google, information is a commodity to be mind and processed with industrial efficiency dld.bz/EakA

I was raised to believe that racism was one of the greatest evils. {George W. Bush, Decision Points} dld.bz/DR9k

Gordon Brown on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: dld.bz/Enkg

The Internet, Nicholas Carr laments, simply returns us to our "natural state of distractedness." dld.bz/EakA The Shallows Facebook

Lenin’s state was a political holding action for an economic revolution still to come. (Timothy Snyder) dld.bz/FsQq bloodlands

It's not terrorism that Americans need to fear; it's not Muslims, it's not Obama; it's not even Wall Street: dld.bz/EWHS panic

Glenn Beck threatens pastor. Police investigate. GlennBeck FoxNews {Dana Milbank, Tears of a Clown} dld.bz/Ea57

Glenn Beck is openly claiming to have organized Mormon extremists to “bring down the hammer” on blacks in America dld.bz/Ea57