Confusion ascendant
Jewish tradition teaches that on Tisha B’Av (the Ninth day of the month of Av) five national calamities occurred: During the time of Moses, Jews […]
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Ron Coleman
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Philosopher Kings, Not
The Atlantic Online features an article by Bejamin Wittes bellyaching about the quality of the U.S. Supreme Court’s rationalization of its all-powerful rule over the […]
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Ron Coleman
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Right of publicity and trademark lawsuit by Woody Allen, that is! Marty Schwimmer reports and links, and has the complaint, too. Plus a picture of […]
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Judicial circuitry
This colorful map showing which states fall into which federal judicial circuits is just plain a handy thing to have around. I am sure that, […]
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Jeff Jarvis reports that a new demographic has been discovered: I had to laugh at this quote from an entertainment exec in Saul Hansell’s NY […]
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Confusion ascendant
Jewish tradition teaches that on Tisha B’Av (the Ninth day of the month of Av) five national calamities occurred: During the time of Moses, Jews […]
Written by: Ron Coleman
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Man Bites Dog
The People’s Daily Online reports [Update: Link dead. But here’s a good one.] A Chinese company, Henan Shuaike Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. lodged a lawsuit against […]
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The Vuvuzela: Threat or menace?
Who knew someone would find a way to “school” Americans on annoying noises? There’s lots of stuff I don’t know, believe me. One of them […]
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To die for
I’ve long been interested in life after digital death. It does seem to have caught on. Patrick Reilly writes: I spent the day at an […]
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Likelihood of extrusion (Archive post)
Reprinting my annual Passover post. The first seder is tonight, Friday, April 19th. Here’s a nice thought on the topic, apropos for our 24/6 social media lifestyle: […]
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Likelihood of extrusion
Reprinting my annual Passover post. The first seder is tonight, Friday, March 1st. I’ll be offline and unaccountable for comment moderation, glitch control or anything […]
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“Fully cooked,” like so much Boston scrod–here comes Meet the Bloggers VI!
Cribbed entirely from The TTABlog® of Beantown home-boy John “Fully cooked, yes, but still Keeping Tabs on the TTAB®” Welch: Meet the Bloggers VI, the […]
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Likelihood of extrusion
Reprinting my annual Passover post. The first seder is tonight, Monday April 10th. I’ll be offline and unaccountable for comment moderation, glitch control or anything […]
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How Upworthy Won the Internet
Upworthy has learned, as the infographic below demonstrates, how to work the levers of the Internet — building a brand out of nowhere. Can these […]
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Brian Wallace
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