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Glenn Smith comes to my rescue

Glenn Smith sets the record straight on Brooks: "Isn't it a bit transparent when those who hold or seek power tell us that their power is all that will…

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A few illustrative tradeoffs

Matt Tabbibi makes some interesting points on Alternet: "If the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family... woul…

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Letter to a Young Sailor

From a posting by Col. Daniel Smith, U.S. Army (Ret.) on Foreign Policy in Focus: "...after my years in the army... I have come to the conclusion that warf…

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Viacom and Joost and YouTube, Oh My

Viacom agreed to license some of its vast content to Joost today, only a few weeks after ordering YouTube to pull 100,000 unauthorized clips from its programs f…

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Settling disputes with a blackberry

Patricia Cohen in the Times: "There was a time when ... points of trivia might arise at dinner or over drinks and lead to a brain-racking long debate or an…

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The "Myth" of natural human goodness

David Brooks column on Sunday really agitated me. It's thesis: "Sometimes a big idea fades {...} until it has almost disappeared. Such is the fate of t…

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Evan is podcasting again!

I just discovered that Evan Brown has started up his Internet Cases Podcast again. Episode 25 comes after a 1-year hiatus and he jumps in with a quick discussio…

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Remix and Fairness

Professor Robert Merges has commented recently on the remix debate, making the point that present copyright law should not be fundamentally changed in order to…