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“Manufacturing Consent” is a document written by Prof. Chomsky which tries to show that the institution of newsmedia is, and has historically been, beholden to the powers that be. The cornerstone of the book is a “Propaganda Model”, which explains the political slant of mass media according to five filters, all of them fairly sinister: […]

Given Hanno’s post directly below, it is particularly appropriate to examine the question to what extent we ought to mourn the victims of the 9/11 attacks, relative to those who die from many of the causes mentioned in the chart in Hanno’s post.
In response to this post of mine on the anniversity of the 9/11 […]

There are One Million Ways to Die (probably a conservative estimate), but terrorism is not one of the more likely causes, at least not in the US. Ryan Singel of Wired News has compiled this handy chart (HT: BoingBoing):Last week at Logan airport, the TSA guy who confiscated my toothpaste in pursuit of the War on Moisture said:Of course I know that this is BS. We all know.

One of life’s persistent mysteries is why so many great restaurants serve such utterly crappy espresso.of the great mysteries of life, at least in Manhattan, is why there are so many great restaurants that serve such utterly crappy espresso.

Tom Barnett’s speech on the Interoperability between Antitrust and IP Policy might be the first in-depth statement of the DOJ on the competitive effects of digital restriction management (”DRM”).

The EFF just published a six step program for protecting online search privacy, an increasingly important issue that we covered on this blog in the past.

In this post over at Philosophy, et cetera Richard Chappell suggets that in liberal democratic societies civil disobedience may never be morally acceptable. He says of radical activists (including those involved in the actions described here, whose tactics seem to have played a role in motivating his post):
These dogmatists feel so assured of the […]

Thanks for J. Carter Wood at Butterflies and Wheels for bringing this gem of an article to greater attention. The title: “Deconstructing the evidence based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and fascism“. Published in the International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, written by health science Profs. David Holmes (also a registered nurse) and Genvieve Rail, […]

Here’s some useful advice for foreign lawyers who think about getting an LL.M.

The Dada exhibition at the MoMa is eerily timely.