But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

Creativity is enhanced by less-than-perfect control over what content is on the network.

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work