Casey, Aly, and anyone else who got into our post-barbeque, post-beer, wide-ranging debate, I found a really interesting interview of Rene Girard which covers many of the topics we discussed.
Rene Girard is a prominent Roman Catholic conservative and emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford University. The interview was conducted by Global Viewpoint editor Nathan […]

As I feared, guest “celebrity” writers don’t want to be corrected by their readers. The Huffington Post has removed all the comments savaging former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen for her poorly researched post criticizing the iPod’s “incompatiblity” with other music services. I guess you don’t get to be the head of one of the […]

Arianna Huffington’s new blog, The Huffington Post, went live today. It’s supposedly a liberal response to the Drudge Report, but it actually seems to have kicked it up a couple of notches in interactivity. The Main Page branches off into the News Wire (which is the most Drudge-like section), and the Blog. The Blog […]

On the way home from Justin’s awesome derby party last night, several of us got into one of those deep intellectual debates about the correct pronouciation of “crayon” and “aunt”. I say “Kran” and “Ant”. The weird people in the car say something else.
This morning Deb sent us all a link to Merriam-Webster’s […]

From the EFF’s latest Action Alert:

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been wreaking havoc on consumers’ fair use rights for the past seven years. Now Congress is considering the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act (DMCRA, HR 1201), a bill that would reform part of the DMCA and formally protect the “Betamax defense” relied […]

So, I’ve caught filibuster fever from fishkite. Hunting around to find the actual rules for Senate filibusters, I found this interesting bit:
In 1975, the Senate reduced the number of votes needed to invoke cloture to three-fifths (60) of Senate membership. At the same time, they made the filibuster “invisible” by requiring only that 41 […]