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January 17, 2012

“Lamar Smith’s copyright hypocrisy”

Here’s a bit of free advice: if you want to push overweening and censorious legislation like SOPA, make sure before you do so you aren’t going to later be caught using copyrighted photos without attribution on your campaign website. That is, hide your own sins before you look to pre-emptively punish everyone else’s. You petty tyrants. God, how I’ve grown to hate legislators.

Can one be “sexually harassed” by an academic lecture?

At the University of Denver where I once taught (and where Brian Kiteley still teaches), the answer, apparently, is yes: The professor [Arthur Gilbert, Josef Korbel School of International Studies] made these anonymous complainants feel harassed by – get this – bringing an art deco vibrator into the classroom during a discussion of how sexuality was theorized historically and by discussing studies linking masturbation to prostate health. Of course, the

A few brief thoughts on last evening’s Fox debate

First, I thought this was Rick Perry’s best debate performance. He seemed much more relaxed and confident last night — like a man who is actually relaxed and confident, not simply trying to appear that way on a national debate stage. I hope his performance — which to my mind was his only really good one thus far — keeps him viable. At the very least, it’s bought him some