Yesterday, I switched my network away from using the DNS servers provided by my ISP, and started using OpenDNS instead. It doubled the speed of my web browsing. DNS servers translate the domain you're trying to go to into an IP address. Humans tend to think in terms of names, while computers are based on numbers. If you type "yahoo.com" into your browser, a DNS server has to take that request and turn it into a number (in this case 66.94.234.13), so it can be reached on the web. Your internet...

for today:News, Bill Barnwell re-run, Max Blumenthal. Listen live here from 11am-1pm Texas time. 92.7 FM in Austin. MP3 here.

Now his grandson is the President. Says the Other Scott Horton while turning his readers on to this new BBC documentary about it. For those not familiar, Chris Floyd has the whole book by Jules Archer online here.

Thanks to Tex.

I'm no fan of the Rockefellers, and this certainly has some off-the-deep end stuff in it, but I'm trying to keep my mind open here.

Steve Chapman reminds us in the Guardian. She will be worse than Bush. Far Worse. Update: And the neocons love her for it.

for Today: News, history, Max Blumenthal (Next week). 11am-1pm Central. Listen live here. MP3 here.

Now you know.

The TSA should be abolished tomorrow first thing in the morning.

The AP has documents which seem to say so...

I sure miss having Tim around all the time. He writes great stuff, like this comment he added to the Justin interview entry: I thought that as a ‘thought experiment’ I’d try to assess whether the neocon movement has been a benefit or a cost to the ’right wing’ defined broadly as the general movement of moderates, conservatives, libertarians and social conservatives. First let’s go back to the beginning. When the neocons first emerged, the original generation were either ‘trotskycons’ or...

The Left Behind┞¢ faction of the American War Party is truly something to behold. Thanks to Matt Barganier.

for today: Joshua Frank on Hillary and Holbrook. Bovard speech on war and liberty. Listen live from 11am-1pm central time here. MP3 here.