Tag Archives: Law & Policy

Spamming for freedom

By alex | Published: 3/28/2006
We are conditioned to think of spam as a bad thing. What if we really wanted to make a statement about warrantless monitoring of Americans’ communications? Yes, we can encrypt our email, but frankly, except for some folks on the tin-foil-hat margin (which doesn’t seem quite as marginal these days), usually the people who are […]
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Redress of greivances

By alex | Published: 3/6/2006
A survey of a thousand Americans found that people are more likely to know the names of Simpsons characters than the freedoms. Only one of the thousand could name the five freedoms articulated in the First Amendment. Of course, this is a great headline, and is easy to cast in terms of dumb or unappreciative […]
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Ave Maria, Florida

By alex | Published: 3/2/2006
CNN has a story about Ave Maria, a private community based on Catholic ideals, in which shops will be barred from selling porn and doctors will not offer abortions. It’s the brainchild of Domino’s pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan. I suspect pizza will be widely available. (Somewhere in the back of my mind: “In Domino’s […]
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Mothers’ obits

By alex | Published: 2/23/2006
Was talking to a journalist last week about a trend in obituaries. The tradition, when a married woman passes away, has always been to list her maiden as well as her married name, so that those who knew her earlier in her life will recognize her. Recently, those listing obituaries in the newspapers have requested […]
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