I often say that there are two things that hold societies together: Moral lessons learned as a child, and the promise of swift and certain punishment. On Father’s Day, let’s focus on the former for a moment. I invite those of Professor Lessig’s pirate crew who are fathers to take a sampling of the literature […]
Anyone who has taken a high school or college English composition class remembers studying logical fallacies. This would have been the part where they taught you how to separate the horse from the horse EFFluvia in advertising, political speech and editorials. Fallacies were (and still are) a pet favorite of mine. I had the good […]
Lester Lawrence Lessig III suggests in a recent blog that his remarks at the CISAC conference last week were misquoted by Andrew Orlowski in his editorial about Lessig’s performance in the Register. “Trip” Lessig offers up an International Herald Tribune piece as offering a more accurate statement of his views. Unfortunately, the key theme that […]
The Register has another great news story from the CISAC conference, this time moving past Lester Lawrence Lessig III (known in the familar as “Trip” Lessig) who turned in what by all accounts was a firmly mediocre debate performance. CISAC apparently gave the keynote slot to The Man aka Google. Boy I sure hope for […]
Someone pointed out to me today that Professor Lessig has a post on his blog about the Register article I wrote about recently (although I removed that post as a courtesy given the crafting discussed below). He seeks to clarify a whole slew of things about which he believes he was misquoted, and I take […]
In reading the papers today about the arrest of the alleged JFK bombers, I was reminded of an argument I had with a civil libertarian after 9/11. Among other things, I had taken a dim view of “student” visas that I knew from personal experience at college and law school were pretty routinely violated. I […]
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