BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. UpdateOf course, I realize that I’m probably a-l-l-l-l-l-l-l alone in the viewpoint I’m expressing in this post. Which is a true measure of freedom to speak — when you can speak amidst your peers and not get stoned. (Damn, did I just get hit by a falling link?) And no, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote and subsequently pulled a posting yesterday, about the Eldred vs. Ashcroft decision. I pulled the post because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to deal with the consequences of my writing. I knew that I was not following the ‘popular’ weblogging path in my post. However, I believe in what […]
Update: Larry Stanton in my comments referred to posts by Jack Balkin about the First Amendment clause issue of Eldred vs. Ashcroft. This gentlemen is a constitutional lawyer specializing in first amendment law, and his posts on this issue, here, here, and here are rich reading — clear explanations from an expert’s viewpoint. As I said earlier, I know that […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The text within this weblog posting is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Please email author notice of re-use as a courtesy. Denise Howell is our first non-CC lawyer taking a walk on the Creative Commons wild side — she licensed her weblog. I liked Denise’s write-up of the process, including clear […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Pessimists see the world from its dark side — always the glass half empty. They never see that the world can be made better, that problems can be solved. They are not constructive, though they aren’t destructive. Idealists, on the other hand, only see the light. In their world, the […]