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Newspapers vs. the Internet
The declining news business is quite bitter at times about the ease with which web sites can borrow stories. They call it thievery, piracy. But maybe it’s just more business as usual.Read the full post
For more than two decades, I ignored Michael Moore
The arch-progressive documentary maker used a gimmick I didn’t like: coyly filming himself being brushed off by General Motors. I was right all along.
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Copy this content and we’ll hunt you down and send you to the Gulag
When Aaron Swartz stole scholarly articles from MIT and planned to make them widely available on the web, he was threatened with 35 years in a federal pen. Read the post
The American Empire Retreats on All Fronts
What else can we make of it when the young actress Megan Fox is given all the room she needs in Esquire magazine to discourse on ancient Mayan civilization and the painful burdens of celebrity. Read the post
Bang, bang, you’re dead
I saw Wayne LaPierre, the NRA lobbyist on TV after the Newtown shooting, and I imagined Christmas at his place. All have descended from their locked bedrooms fully armed and loaded. Read the full post
10 Reasons to Defeat Romney
Last year, the presidential race took a strange turn into lunacy. The Republicans had a chance, but somehow only clowns were interested in running Read the full post
