'Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." Herman Goering, Inter...

Nick Fitzsimons points us to a blog post by journalist/musician Rhodri Marsden complaining about everyone who keeps telling the music industry it needs to "find a new business model." According to Marsden, the people who say this do so without ever suggesting what that alternative business model mig...

Google just announced a new service called Google Voice (click here for Mashable’s story).  According to Mashable: The service looks a lot like Gmail for voicemail, although you don’t have to be a Gmail user to use it. It lets you retrieve transcripts of your voicemail, archive and ...

I've been doing a lot of research on the healthcare and pharmaceutical markets lately, getting a much better understanding of just how much damage patents have actually done to healthcare (contrary to the opinions of many). There's a lot of scary stuff, the more you dig into it -- but occasionally y...

Business Week: President Barack Obama hits three nails on the head with his plan to cap carbon emissions: weaning us off fossil fuels, spurring a wave of investment and job creation, and putting cash in the pockets of Americans who most need it. In his budget, Obama included a "cap-and-refund&q...

The rich who made this mess are too greedy to be grateful we're saving their hides....

Bristol and Levi Johnston have broken up? You're kidding! This recent award-winning image by photographer Melina Mara takes us back to Campaign '08's biggest snow job. I mean, it's all there: the smirk; the fact sister Willow was mostly the one schlepping Trig; and the irony -- since Bristol's since...

You have to wonder if, during their talks last week in Damascus, the acting US assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, and the Syrian foreign minister, Walid Moallem, mentioned Hawaii. Why Hawaii? Because in April 2007, at another meeting in Damascus, this one between th...

A few nights ago I attended the Women’s Guild meeting at church. It was my annual appearance to put on a “program� lasting around 45 minutes. There were about 20 women present and my guess would be that 18 of them were over the age of 70. With women of that age there is a “been there – don...

With all the talk of bailouts, concessions, layoffs and cuts it's not surprising that people are in turmoil and questioning their own security.  However, in the midst of all that, comes a story that Waterloo's own Research in Motion ("RIM") is bucking the trend and hiring.�...