Remember Mr. A, true believers? Unless you’re a serious comics geek or fairly well steeped in the wacky world of Ayn Rand, odds are you don’t. Legendary comics artist Steve Ditko is best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. But after falling out with his Marvel collaborator Stan Lee, Ditko, well, went […]

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My old friend P.J. Doland has just cooked up a pretty handy looking site called ShoutingMat.ch, with dedicated politics and tech channels running so far. This is especially a boon if, like me, your RSS feed has become sufficiently bloated that you know you don’t have time to wade through it all some days, but […]

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It would be totally embarrassing to have my ass handed to me by a 23-year-old.

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Megatron approvingly cites Bryan Caplan on an apparent contradiction opponents of multiculturalism are prone to: Critics of multi-culturalism often mock its proponents for (a) cultural relativism and (b) disrepecting Columbus. The problem, as I’ve explained before, is that Columbus was a pioneer of slavery and barbarism. The only way to excuse his behavior is to […]

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At some point soonish, I’m probably going to do a big redesign and stage a properly official comeback, but I think I’ve cleared my head a bit and am ready to ease back into bloggerdom, albeit at a more leisurely pace than previously.

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I’m not properly back just yet, but since I might forget, two worthwhile things: (1) If you haven’t seen the show Dexter yet, watch the show Dexter. Worth it for the opening sequence alone. (2) Even if you think a documentary about a typeface sounds like something preposterous The Onion made up to lampoon the […]

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I’m talking about copyright and fashion with UVA law prof Chris Sprigman and Tech Liberation Front’s Adam Thierer and Tim Lee here.

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In case anyone’s still checking here, I’ve got a piece on fashion copyrights up at The American.

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If you’re dying to hear me hold forth on FISA and surveillance while I’m on hiatus, I’m going to be on a Center for American Progress panel tomorrow morning with Spencer Ackerman, Caroline Fredrickson from the ACLU, and Nita Chaudhary from MoveOn. Update: Those of you not physically located in Washington, D.C., can watch the […]

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This animal rights discussion is reminding me how little worth saying can be said in blog posts. I think I’m done with this medium for a while.

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