Given the new focus of this blog, I have stayed away from the political aspects of the Terri Schiavo case. From a legal standpoint, though, I find the Congressional legislation disconcerting. Basically, it grants one (and only one) federal court in Florida jurisdiction to hear a case brought within the next 30 days (and only […]
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As you may have seen by now, the first volume of Bob Dylan’s autobiography, Chronicles: Vol. 1, was a finalist for, but did not win, the National Book Critics Circle award for biography. I bought the book the day it was released. While it was an enjoyable read, it was also uneven. Moreover, I wonder […] I was somewhat disappointed that, for the first time in years, I wasn’t going to get to the WCHA Final Five hockey tournament, an NCAA regional or the Frozen Four itself. Fox Sports Net has come to my rescue, though. Not only is it televising all five WCHA games, it is also showing part of […] Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford law professor who has written extensively on copyright and related legal matters in the age of technology. He is putting into practice one of the concepts he promotes in updating one of his works. In 1999 Lessig published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. As he believes the book is […] I don’t read a lot of novels. As a result, it’s unusual for me to read two in a row, let alone two first novels. That’s happened in the last week, due in part to the fact these were slim volumes that provided breaks from the 600-page biography of Leonardo da Vinci that is pointing […] |
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