One Theme Of What I've Been Writing

I'm A Lawyer. I Make Lawyers For A Living.

We Are A Cut-and-paste Culture. The Aim Of The Protectionists Is To Argue That A Cut-and-paste Culture Is Criminal. Well, It's Only Criminal If There's Nothing Out There That You Can Freely Cut And Paste. If We Increasingly Mark Material As Available For These Non-commercial Uses, Then People Will Have The Opportunity To See Its Importance.

The Legal System Doesn't Work. Or More Accurately, It Doesn't Work For Anyone Except Those With The Most Resources. Not Because The System Is Corrupt. I Don't Think Our Legal System (at The Federal Level, At Least) Is At All Corrupt. I Mean Simply Because The Costs Of Our Legal System Are So Astonishingly High That Justice Can Practically Never Be Done.

And With A Practice Of Writing Comes A Certain Important Integrity. A Culture Filled With Bloggers Thinks Differently About Politics Or Public Affairs, If Only Because More Have Been Forced Through The Discipline Of Showing In Writing Why A Leads To B.

The Electoral College Is A Project That Calls On Their Judgment. If We Don't Like It, We Can Talk About How To Eliminate It. I'm Not Quite Convinced We Should Eliminate It Completely. I Think It's Important To Have A Final Check Be Somebody Other Than The Supreme Court. But Given That It's There, We Should Take It Seriously. And Taking It Seriously Says They Should Exercise Their Judgment According To The Moral Values, The Principles That Are Part Of Our Constitutional Tradition Today. And Those Principles Say Equality.