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Judging from the title you might think that this post is going to be about how it’s spring time and the flowers are blooming and the birds are chirping. I guess that could be what this post is about, but it’s not. This post is going to be about abstinence only sex education. Now, you’ve [...]

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford University. He chairs the Creative Commons Project and is on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for the Public Domain. He has also written three books about culture, technology, and the laws that tend to mess them up. In short, he has [...]

Now, give me a minute to defend myself. For some reason I can’t keep myself from using overly bold and inciteful titles. The point I’m trying to make is that we (and when I say we I mean the whole American populace) are all too willing to trade liberty for safety. I’m sure I’ve written [...]

Alright. So, it’s 12:30 election day night and I’m not quite sure where things went wrong. It looks like George Bush is going to remain the president of the US for the next four years. I’m fairly disappointed in our country as a whole. I just don’t feel like I’m a part of the process. [...]

So, there has been some talk about how blogs will be able to let average users report the news from their point of view. This will take a small part of the power away from big media – helping to make us all a little more free. Okay, maybe I have lofty goals for this whole blogging thing, but I’m going to try and do my part by sharing my views on the presidential debates here. I make no promise to be fair and balanced or anything like that, this is my blog and you’re going to get my point of view. Deal with it. Okay, here we go…

My blogging is following a similar pattern to all of the other times that I have tried to keep a blog. I have a few days where I’m really into it and I’m writing a lot. Then, I get to the point where I have a whole bunch of things to write about, but I [...]

So, I’ve been thinking a little bit about that whole war thing. Oh yeah – we’re in a war. That means that our soldiers are getting killed and killing other people as you’re reading this. War. So, I was thinking about it, and I started thinking about the Iraqi people. I started thinking about the [...]