Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt addressed a group of bloggers in St. Paul on September 3, 2008, discussing the company's positions on net neutrality, censorship, and the perception of corporate political bias.
In just a few short days, we can close the book on 2006 and all the glorious and unifying claptrap to which we've been treated by the burgeoning majority, lo these twelve months.
But before the S.S. Ethical Congress sets sail, let's send her off with one final bask in all the best banality this year had to offer.
On December 6, activists congregated in New York City to protest the NYPD over the shooting death of Sean Bell. City Councilman Charles Barron staged a racially charged tirade, heralding an "explosion" of violence against the New York Police Department. Another speaker had a white photographer ejected for taking her picture.
Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt addressed a group of bloggers in St. Paul on September 3, 2008, discussing the company's positions on net neutrality, censorship, and the perception of corporate political bias.