The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.