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Paul Krassner interrogates Sirius, who says some cool stuff about counterculture, politics, and lots of other topics.

Today, we have a zilllion media channels vying for people's attention--pushing attention in millions of different directions. Everything is distributed and diffused and confused. And then, extreme types of dress and irreverence are mainstream." In fact, we can question whether a mainstream or a counterculture really exists any more. Our cultures today are cauld…

I don't have any ideas about what to do with criminals, but some creative, experimental thinking needs to happen regarding prisons. I just can't imagine that the "benefit" of deterrence outweighs the obvious damage to society being done through massive, inhumane incarceration.

Behavioral incentives are shunned by get-tough prison administrators in Texas. They refuse to attempt anything that might be considered soft, or in the recent words of a state official, viewed as “hug a…

I want fiber for everyone!

The more people push the boundaries, the more demand it creates for better, more efficient solutions, and the more incentive there is to create such solutions. Rather than begging for artificial barriers to be put up, Cuban (and others) should be encouraging such uses. They push the boundaries to the point that people learn where the next big friction point is, and they innovate to get around it. When people are using up last mile bandwidth, all it's…