In Cyberspace, The First Amendment Is A

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.

I'm Still Strongly Opposed To Antismoking Laws, Strongly Opposed To Any Law That Regulates Personal Behavior.

So I'm Just Waiting Until One Party Or The Other Actually Gets A Moral Compass And A Backbone.

Relying On The Government To Protect Your Privacy Is Like Asking A Peeping Tom To Install Your Window Blinds.

Royalties Are Not How Most Writers Or Musicians Make Their Living. Musicians By And Large Make A Living With A Relationship With An Audience That Is Economically Harnessed Through Performance And Ticket Sales.