Why Internet Gambling Thrives
Now that the cool new thing in state politics is for voters to rewrite state constitutions and promote casino construction in their backyards, one question to think about is the impact the all of these new brick-and-mortar casinos will have on internet gambling. The answer, I think, is: virtually none; and the reasons are both political and economic.

Dear Sirius-XM, I Quit
After being a loyal customer for 2.5 years, I called and canceled my Sirius-XM subscription this week. It wasn't a spur of the moment decision, Sirus-XM has been getting on my nerves for a while and the ultimate result is that they lost my business. I went from thinking that Sirius Satellite Radio was one of the best purchases I've ever made to deciding it wasn't worth it anymore. How? The story begins in the spring of 2007...The Honeymoon PeriodI had just finished my second year of college and was on track to start my summer job. Back then, I naively believed that spending over an hour a day driving back and forth from work in a car was "completely norma

The Danish Way
Last week's episode of NOW was pretty great.I think the whole 'electric cars can save the world' attitude can be easily misinterpreted, because the reality is that in a city like Copenhagen, there will still be a sizable number of people who never own one. It's a unique city in the sense that it's both very expensive to drive and very reasonable to get by without ever driving. That's not true of most American cities.So you could replace every SUV in America with an electric vehicle; for that matter you could replace every internal combustion engine vehicle with an electric one, and we'll still have

What Free Burritos and Traffic Congestion Have in Common
Occasionally Chipotle has promotions where they give away a free burrito to anyone who shows up. Apparently Halloween is one of these occasions, which I discovered last Saturday night when I showed up craving a burrito and found a line wrapping all the way around the store.(

The Weird World of Movie Piracy
Last Sunday's 60 Minutes took a look into the world of movie piracy. Take a look.I have a really difficult time understanding how there is such a huge market for this kind of thing in the United States. I can understand why there might be a market for a product like music, even textbooks, because theoretically you can make a near-perfect copy of the original and the bootleg would be only marginally different (if at all).Movies are a different beast. People listen to music on their ipods and in t