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Election Guide and Prop 8
Election Guide and Prop 8
On November 5th, we will (hopefully) wake up to a profoundly different world. I’m not talking about your “run of the mill” different world – I’m talking the type of morning where the global paradigm shifts on a par with September 12, 2001; July 21, 1969; August 7, 1945 and...
What Sarah Palin can learn from Mika Salo
What Sarah Palin can learn from Mika Salo
My efforts to stay away from politics fail me again. One of the current memes on the campaign trail is the conflict between the Palin and McCain camps (story originally found on Politico). In a nutshell, the storyline goes that Palin knows she’s on a sinking ship, and has started focusing more...
McCain vs. YouTube, episode 2: Fair Use Follies.
McCain vs. YouTube, episode 2: Fair Use Follies.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has come out in support of the McCain camp’s attempt to pressure YouTube to exempt campaign ads from takedown notices. The brunt of their complaint is two-fold: first, that they are limiting free speech on the internet, especially given that not all of the clips...
Gee, guess which candidate is better for the arts…
Not surprising. (Warning: link opens a .pdf) [Thanks Courtney] Tweet