You may have read that Senator Santorum thinks the National Weather Service is giving away too much data for free, so he wants to prohibit them from doing so, to benefit his friends at Accuweather. Well, Billmon has some thoughts on that idea.
Posted by Linkmeister at April 22, 2005 04:53 PMYes, that was upsetting.
More still, was his prior entry:
A bill proposing that:
"Americans would be required to purchase the air they breathe from a commercial vendor rather than inhaling it naturally from the earth's atmosphere."