In lieu of actual original blog content for today, you might check out a couple of my recent posts at Techdirt: One on Megan Meier and “open source rough justice,” another about the legal history bearing on recent reports that law enforcement officers are often able to track the physical location of cell phones without […]

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My friend Erica notes the Care Bear Stare metaphor popping up in Rod Dreher’s Dallas Morning News column. Maybe this one’s got legs. Adorable, stubby, furry legs!

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This may be my favorite response yet to my comics article: The author doesn’t seem to have understood much of what he read, but man is he hilariously angry about it.

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My American Prospect story “The Revolt of the Comic Books,” previously behind the subscriber firewall, is now available online to the hoi polloi. Though since the online version lacks the abundant and lovely illustrative comic art that accompanies the print edition, it’s still worth looking for a physical copy at your newsstand. Update: Ezra has […]

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I’ve got a post up at TechDirt, where I’ll henceforth be contributing occasionally, about John Ashcroft’s recent op-ed defending telecom immunity for cooperation in extralegal wiretaps.

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Warren Ellis has apparently read (or at least seen) my comics article. For a sense of how cool I find this, recall that I dressed like this a couple Halloweens ago. And I look like an ass with my head shaved.

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Starting next week, I’ll be contributing occasionally to The Economist‘s Democracy in America as a guest blogger. Per their policy, the posts won’t be attributed, but I figure those of you who’ve been reading for a while will probably recognize the flavour of my prose through the Britishisms.

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I’ve got a story in the November issue of The American Prospect about how comic books (mostly, though not exclusively, mainstream superhero comics) have responded to the War on Terror and the Iraq War—and how the implicit political premises of the superhero genre itself end up complicating writers’ intended messages. Subscribers can read “The Revolt […]

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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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