this is an adventure

After a year long absence, Fake Steve returns: “He wanted me to have the whole thing. But I was like, David, seriously, I only need half of it, and he was like, “Seriously, man, after all you’ve done for me — I mean have you seen my house? Have you seen where I live?” Namaste.

Obama supporter James Boyle has some hefty doubts about the Administration’s approach to copyright law. It’s good that “instead of taking copyright policy direct from the media conglomerates…it is quite likely that the administration will construct it as a contract between content companies and high-technology companies such as Google,” but there are other questions.

This comes as no surprise, but it’s a definitive moment in this crisis. “The announcement on Iran’s state-run English language Press TV is another sign the regime is determined to crush the post-election protests — the strongest challenge to its leadership in 30 years — rather than compromise. Government warnings to the protesters have intensified.”

President Barack Obama did not “lose” Iran. This is not a Jimmy Carter moment. But the foreign-policy education of America’s 44th president has just begun. Hitherto, he had been cavalier about other lands, he had trusted in his own biography as a bridge to distant peoples, he had believed he could talk rogues and ideologues […]