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John McCain against net neutrality? Surprise, surprise.

This Fortune archived article entitled, “How I Work” from March of 2006 will give you an interesting overview of how clueless Senator McCain really is…thank God he’s married to a wizard:

I read my e-mails, but I don’t write any. I’m a Neanderthal–I don’t even type. I do have rudimentary capabilities to call up some websites, like the New York Times online, that sort of stuff. No laptop. No PalmPilot. I prefer my schedule on notecards, which I keep in my jacket pocket. But my wife has enormous capability. Whenever I want something I ask her to do it. She’s just a wizard. She even does my boarding passes–people can do that now. When we go to the movies, she gets the tickets ahead of time. It’s incredible.

Detailed explanations of net neutrality don’t work but humor sure does. Behold Jon Steward on net neutrality and his references to Senator McCain:

"Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service.

Three groups of internet users are mainly responsible for driving the growth of this activity: social network website users, those who connect to the internet via mobile devices, and younger internet users – those under age 44.

In addition, the more devices someone owns, the more likely they are to use Twitter or another service to update their status. Fully 39% of internet users with four or more internet-connected devices (such as a laptop, cell phone, game console, or Kindle) use Twitter, compared to 28% of internet users with three devices, 19% of internet users with two devices, and 10% of internet users with one device.

The median age of a Twitter user is 31, which has remained stable over the past year. The median age for MySpace is now 26, down from 27 in May 2008, and the median age for LinkedIn is now 39, down from 40. Facebook, however, is graying a bit: the median age for this social network site is now 33, up from 26 in May 2008.

It will probably become more difficult to track status updating as an independent activity as social network updates feed into Twitter and vice versa. For now, it is clear that a “social segment” of internet users is flocking to both social network sites and status update services. This segment is likely to grow as ever more internet users adopt mobile devices as a primary means of going online."

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Imagine watching President Obama speak on TV and watch him tell us he's actually a "closet" Republican, was just kidding about universal health care, and has a secret man crush on Glenn Beck. Ludicrous right? Someday…maybe not.

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Watching Meet the Press this morning and Maria Shriver was on to discuss the just-released Center for American Progress "The Shriver Report" about the changes in the workforce and the amazing changes that have occurred as it has shifted toward a critical mass of women and the earning they're responsible for today.

NBC is devoting an entire week to "A Woman's Nation" and this report is certainly going to be on the tips of the tongues of many going forward. 

I married a professional woman who has worked at a high level all of her life so the sorts of things discussed today on Meet the Press — women out-earning men and primary breadwinners; male egos; and the flexibility companies and organizations need to address as these shifts occur — are ones my bride and I have dealt with, and negotiated on, our entire lives and with pretty good success. 

Whether you agree with some of the conclusions in the report or not, the facts are irrefutable and are ones shaping our future regardless of any personal opinions. I predict the next report to hit the national consciousness will be ones outlining the changes in the ethnicity of our nation and the changes here now and coming next.

 

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Up until the Fall of 2008, my bride and I were quite pleased that our hard work and focus on our 401k retirement accounts had paid off. Then came the global economic downturn and we, like too many of our fellow citizens, found our 401k had turned in to a "200.5k" since it was down about 50%!

I'm ashamed to admit I strongly considered panic selling when I watched my Apple (AAPL) holdings — comprising far too much of my portfolio since I'd worked at Apple in the 1990's and amassed a nice chunk of the (then) relatively cheap stock — had plummeted from $200-ish a share to a low of just over $85 on Christmas Eve. My bride has a strong AAPL position too and I just dug in my heels and absolutely refused to bet on our economy sliding in to another Great Depression and didn't sell.

Thank God I didn't. Not only has it rebounded nicely, Apple has a $210 price target on it. I hold out hope that we can be self-reliant in our old age since it's unlikely we, at the tail end of the 77 million strong baby boom generation, will enjoy any governmental help in the form of social security and Medicare in a meaningful way (and hopefully our hard work won't be horribly taxed when we start to cash out our 401k…but I'm betting it will).

(Note: This is an update since my buddy Phil noticed I'd made an error on the graphic).

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