It’s not too late to start a new book, and if you’re Utah State Auditor John “Frugal” Dougall, you’ve started at least three in the time it takes to read this post. If you need a reading suggestion or two, here are a few that Utah’s politicos are reading. This is the twelfth in a series on what […]
Have you read 1984 lately? [Poll]
June 12, 2013 by
[Don’t forget to take the poll at the bottom and leave your comments if you’ve read the book] If they haven’t already, apparently, a lot of people will be reading George Orwell’s classic predictions about big government soon. In the wake of the NSA snooping–allegations of listening in on Verizon customers and the PRISM program […]
Language we use: “You Are What You Speak”
April 21, 2011 by
One of the first warnings I received in law school was to not pick over the language and grammar of ‘mere mortals.’ In other words, non-lawyers. It won’t win you friends, they said. Nor will it endear you to your spouse. Sure enough, it didn’t take a month before I caught myself saying something to my wife […]
Big Brother, and Google, is watching you…
September 13, 2010 by
Image by Inmigrante a media jornada via Flickr I thought it was scary how much information Facebook had on me. Yeah, right. Next to Google, Facebook is just almost benign. Almost. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (which does email, calendars, documents, searches, maps, directions, YouTube, blogs, and so on), has his eye on you: […]
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