Bruce on July 3rd, 2010

Cory Doctorow speaks to the New America Foundation about the challenges facing democracy in respect to copyright in the digital age.  Copyright may not seem like an interesting subject, but it impacts nearly everything you see and do on the internet, and soon will have very real implications for how you live your daily life. [...]

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Bruce on November 20th, 2009

A few years ago, Texas did something monumentally stupid. (Shocking, I know.) My neighbors voted to amend our  state constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman, and in the process enshrined bigotry into the very founding document of our state. For the record, I voted no on that ballot [...]

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