W00t!!!! Judge overturns Calif. gay marriage ban.
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Peter Watts Sentenced
Dr. Peter Watts, recently convicted, basically, of the felony crime of not cowering quickly enough when the US Border Patrol decided to search his car as he was leaving this country a few months back, has been sentenced, and I’m glad to see the judge didn’t give him any actual jail time. But Dr. Watts [...]
Jury Duty
It’s a beautiful spring day in New England, and I’ve just been impaneled on a jury at the Superior Court. On the one hand, like everyone else, I hate having my life put on hold while this happens. The interruption of my routine. Having to make arrangements for all sorts of stuff at the office. [...]
If It Upsets You, THAT’S GOOD
Olbermann made me cry. There is no commentary I could add to this.
Too Plugged In
There really is such a thing: Please Rob Me. I find it amazing that people don’t see the places where their online behavior may turn out to be detrimental to their real lives.
Is Amazon the New Wal-Mart?
I’ve been reading about this gawdawful mess on writers’ blogs and on AW all weekend. And I agree with Scott Westerfeld and a lot of other folks that the point where Amazon went too far was when they delisted EVERY Macmillan title from their site, paper or electronic, as a tactic to pressure the publisher [...]
Hayek vs. Keynes
I truly never even considered the possibility that someone would ever make a rap video about economics. It’s brilliant. Go watch it.
Appalled
Massachusetts, the cradle of liberty, just elected Scott Brown to the US Senate. WTF?
Yay, Portugal!
Yesterday, the Portuguese Parliament approved gay marriage!
Peter Watts Arrested by US Border Patrol
Dr. Peter Watts, Hugo-nominated Canadian SF author, was punched in the face and arrested by the US Border Patrol, who are charging him with assaulting a federal officer, apparently for getting out of his car and asking why they wanted to search it. This happened while he was crossing the border from the US into [...]
