The complaint and the ruling is that the people "buying" these edited movies are not buying the movies themselves, but a bowdlerized version of them. And the market is not being expanded because the editor is taking a cut -- the edited version costs the same as the original.

This is the new reality, this is what must be understood. Your place on the stage must be continually earned, and continually shared if you're to earn your keep there.

Iraq is trivia. Immigration is trivia. Budgets are trivia. Gasing up your car is trivia. Nearly all the issues you think are important are in fact trivia. This planet is dieing, and we need everyone pulling in one direction if we are to have a prayer of saving it.

We're not going to take it anymore, from the TV talking heads, from the cable talking heads, from the newspaper talking heads, and certainly not from the National Journal. We demand more responsiveness fron the center, not just in 2006 but going forward.

Here are some of the other stories I’ve been working on today: At ZDNet Open Source:  Open Source Software and Processes Open Source and Netiquette —  submit that the process for dispute resolution is simpler, cleaner, and more efficient in the open source world. If we get into an argument and can’t resolve it, we […]

Since 9-11, Americans have become increasingly insular. They have been encouraged in this by a xenophobic government. The falling dollar has helped as well. We're scared of the world, and frankly the world is scared of us.

Lieberman is an Anti-Thesis politician, so much so that in his latter career he has embraced and (often) even endorsed the political Thesis of his time, the Thesis of Conflict brought to us by Richard Nixon, brought to glory by Ronald Reagan, and brought to grief by George W. Bush. Lieberman has internalized this Thesis to such an extent that he expects credit for any vote he may cast that defies it. He considers each such vote to be an act of political courage.

So one person can do a lot more radio than TV. This makes them far more familiar with their audience than any TV character. It means they can manipulate their audience more thoroughly, get deeper into their souls, gain more of their love and (as in the case of parents from the Wolfman Jack era) more of their contempt as well.

Between its own fiber and 802.11 mesh technology, Google has the capacity (with enough business partners) of solving the last-mile problem, delivering new wireless capacity to every household that can grow with the 802.11 standards

I don't mean to minimize any of this. The mainstreaming of hate means the mainstreaming of violence and anyone -- including Greenwald, including me, including you -- could be the next to be targeted.