Here is how the grass­roots works. In Maine yes­ter­day, an orga­nized bloc of tea-bagger del­e­gates to their state repub­li­can con­ven­tion over­whelm­ingly voted to scrap the pro­posed GOP party plat­form and replace it with their own version[1], writ­ten by a group called the Maine Refounders. The new plat­form raises many dis­turb­ing issues. Rather than tear into […]

Posted on May 15th, 2010 by Sky
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With all this talk about old news out­lets giv­ing way to social media, here is a story to con­sider. This morn­ing I dialed into 5–0 Radio Pro, an iPhone app that’s a quite capa­ble police-fire-emergency radio scan­ner. After mak­ing the rounds of my reg­u­lar chan­nels, I checked out the cur­rent Top 100 and noted Nashville […]

Posted on May 2nd, 2010 by Sky
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