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I previously posted my thoughts on Lawrence Lessig’s possible run for an open seat in the House of Representatives. Since that time, he has decided not to run. For those who support him and his ideas, this is actually probably the better decision in the short run. In truth, Jackie Speier probably [...]

Allison passed me a link to a video about the comparisons between Barack Obama’s campaign for President of the United States and the fictional Santos Campaign on the TV show The West Wing via email today. I have mentioned that I’m a fan of The West Wing before. I didn’t necessarily agree with [...]

Although Ed Felten has recently gotten tons of press about his research group’s recent analysis of breaking hard drive encryption, I wanted to talk about some research that he’s done previously on electronic voting for several reasons. First, I mentioned voting in my last post. Second, I have blogged about electronic voting here [...]

Lawrence Lessig, perhaps best known for his creation of Creative Commons licensing, is considering a run for Congress. His possible campaign website, and the somewhat related change congress website, talk about the kind of change that Congress needs. While the talk is good, I am not sure it’s anything new. People have [...]

Fox News is reporting that some lost documents and artifacts relating to the assassination of JFK were found in a Dallas courthouse. As someone who has been fascinated with the JFK assassination for years, this is obviously interesting news for a variety of reasons.
My first reaction was the sort of comic imbalance [...]

One of the most highly charged pieces of legislation that has been passed by Congress in recent years is the Protect America Act. Probably the only good thing about it is the sunset provision that ensures it will expire in its current form unless Congress acts to renew it or make it permanent. [...]

A few months ago, I made a few predictions about the CNN - YouTube Democratic Debate. This past week saw the CNN - YouTube Republican Debate actually come to pass. I have to say that I was disappointed. One of the predictions I made was that there would be 30,000 videos submitted. [...]

I have been meaning to post my thoughts on the book Inequality.com: Money, Power and the Digital Divide by David Stevens and Kieron O’Hara for a while now. Despite the hokey name, the book is rather thought provoking. Essentially it is an attempt to discuss the social and political impact of information communications [...]

Slashdot recently reported on an ArsTechnica article on the death of RealID. There are several things to take from this.
First, RealID is horrible from a privacy and liberty standpoint. This is well-known to anyone who actively concerns themselves with these sorts of issues. It is essentially a national ID card. Depending [...]

If you haven’t been to The Onion recently, why not? It is the quintessential time-waster site for those times when you have a spare five minutes where you can’t possibly get anything done.
I remember when The Onion launched their website and people were trying to make the mental leap for what it means [...]