Lessig leaves Stanford for Harvard
It’s all explained here. He’s taken an appointment at Harvard Law School and accepted the Directorship of Harvard’s Safra Center. Timely. We have to start somewhere building ethics back into our...
View ArticleSpecial Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney, and DOJ Attorneys
February 24, 2009 *Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials * We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial...
View ArticleCIA agents killed in the line of duty
So ‘ere’s to you fuzzy-wuzzy, at your ‘ome in the Soudan; You’re a pore benighted ‘eathen, but a first class fightin’ man. – Rudyard Kipling Since a time before the centuries of failure of the British...
View ArticleToyota
The Senate held hearings today on Blackwater and the shell companies they contrived in order to share lucrative contracts with Raytheon. The Blackwater testimony was misleading, vague, and at times...
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Sodding the Commons
Netroots Wisconsin hosts Uniting the Cheddarsphere in Madison today. They tapped me for the panel “Fighting Astroturf-Based Telecom Policy and a Corporate Broadband Future.” Astroturf? Whazzat? Take a...
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Republican disinformation
Republican subversives, the same greedy corporate players that brought us the Citizens United decision and tipped the 2000 election in favor of that incredibly stupid and detached exemplar of vacuity,...
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Eat the news, not too much
…most of us do not yet understand that news is to the mind what sugar is to the body. News is easy to digest. The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don’t really concern our...
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Work is Worship
“Work is worship” was the motto of my alma mater. Our founder, Pandit Malaviya, said, The University will seek not merely to turn out men as engineers, scientists, doctors, merchants, theologians but...
View ArticleHaystacks, needles, and so forth
A rumor, passed to me by a university librarian, suggests that among Winston Churchill’s personal papers, there exists a treasure called “the Veracity Files.” Churchill’s fame as a mover and shaker in...
View ArticleThe Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
by Aaron Swartz [Was this what drove Carmen Ortiz nutz? -fp-] “Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural...
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