## Some people think that it’s a bad idea for government to get involved in helping organize local wireless networks. This great little post by Glenn Fleishman asks, what if we’d applied those arguments to the introduction of electricity 100 years ago?
Electricity is too important a resource for America’s future to be left in the hands of cities and towns, the council argues, which are inefficient enterprises that take profits from industry in their pursuit of ever-greater control of the flow of capital within their borders. “How big may these so-called public utilities grow in their efforts to stifle free enterprise and increase the size of government?” the report asks. The report notes that 97 percent of all neighborhoods in the U.S. have at least one functional electric street lamp running built through private enterprises’ effort, and that some urban areas have two electrical lamps on each corner, as well as lighting available at different times of the day and night both within and outside of homes and businesses. |
## Cliff Figallo, who I once had the pleasure of working with at Salon, is blogging thoughtfully at “What Retirement?” about all the issues — Social Security and otherwise — facing today’s workers as they ponder the (long, we all hope) tail end of their careers and lives.
## Annalee Newitz of the EFF deconstructs EULAs (“end user license agreements”), those boilerplate legal agreements we all click through without reading so that we can actually use commercial software.
## Leftie SF author China Mieville put together this list of “Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read”
## The hotel that inspired the greatest farce of the television age, “Fawlty Towers,” has been sold. But how can the Patels, the new owners of Torquay’s Hotel Gleneagles, possibly maintain its proud tradition of rudeness and incompetence?
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