we can check our email safely again “US Internet security experts have struck a major blow against junk email purveyors” By John Charles Reedburg Too bad for the spammers. But – yay! For us. SPAM has been with us since the earliest days of the Internet, and is now an accepted annoyance of being online, along with pop-up [...]

gas costs are steadily dropping But what else could happen? A customer fills his car with gas at a Phillips 66 gas station November, 13, 2008 in Jennings, Missouri. The price of oil fallen close to 50 dollars before steadying in trading today as OPEC announced the possiblity of an emergency output meeting. By John Charles Reedburg The more [...]

a lot deeper than jell-o pudding Obama’s success reflects the glass ceiling in American popular culture By John Charles Reedburg Are we all free at last? This shouldn’t be considered a rhetorical question. Today, I took it upon myself to do the right thing and vote early. As I stood in line (for 35 minutes) I tried to read [...]

who’s the blame? DMX says, “What the f–k is a Barack?!” By John Charles Reedburg Hip hop has done a great job in getting a younger generation who usually don’t vote registered and out early to the polls. Yet does the negative lyrics in some hip hop songs really help Obama’s stride for socio-economic and progressive change? On [...]

solicitation decriminalized San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K, a measure that forbids local authorities to investigate, arrest or prosecute anyone for selling sex. By John Charles Reedburg Believe it or not. In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores [...]

in case you were wondering how bad can it be? Part sketch comedy, part performance art, Britney for President is billed as a “pop-culture disaster.” Which is as good a description as any. A demented fantasia on celebrity worship, plastic surgery and post-9/11 politics, it’s the brainchild of John Caswell Jr. and his Progressive Theatre Workshop. His [...]