Various matters

A miserable flu prevented me from writing yesterday and may do so again today.  I'll summon the limited energy I have (do you hear the sickness-caused melodramatic martyrdom?) to note the following items of interest:

(1) Time Magazine has a lengthy new article examining -- and largely deriding -- the intensifying fight over net neutrality.  Just as was true for prior articles on this topic, Time does so without bothering to mention that the corporation which owns it, Time Warner Inc., is