Cisco locks customers out of their own routers, only lets them back in if they agree to being spied upon and monetized

Wind energy Spain’s #1 energy source. Germany not too far behind. UK catching up. America? Nowhere. (via @MMinhas)

But billionaires with huge interests should be able to give as much as they want. Everything that Romney and the Right say is like a parody – but they mean it.

Cripes. You’d think that my home state had, overnight, become the reactionary, red neck, low-class, trailer trash, homophobic, Hee-Haw capital of the nation. Here’s the latest from the birthplace of  [more...]