Category: political
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DHS issues revised “Real ID” regulations
The Department of Homeland Security has released revised “Real ID” regulations — 284 pages long. While according to government jargon these are the “final” regulations, the first deadline for compliance has now been pushed back to December 31, 2009, so there’s still plenty of opportunity for Congress to act and change things. Their press release…
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Four out of four ain’t bad: Sony BMG to throw in towel on DRM
Catherine Holahan reports in BusinessWeek.com that In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of music downloaded from the Internet, BusinessWeek.com has learned. Sony BMG, a joint venture of…
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The green fairy
With a cover story in by Paul Clarke in Imbibe magazine (not available online, alas) following Jacob Sullum’s The Green Fairy gets a Green Card in reason online last month, it’s absinthe-mania! The legal issues are complex and relate to the levels of thujone, the ingredient that may or may not be psychoactive. To me…
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This just in: Dalai Lama “not a call girl”
… at least according to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was responding to Chinese criticism for meeting the Dalai Lama in his office as opposed to a hotel. Just thought you’d want to know.
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Teen sues school that wouldn’t let him go to prom in a dress
When Kevin Logan went to his high school prom in 2006, he was hoping it would be a night to remember. What he’ll remember, though, will be standing outside in the parking lot while his classmates danced inside. As Logan walked up to the prom, clad in a pink prom dress, West Side High School…
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Carnival against sexual violence 36 — and What Men Can Do
Today’s the last of the 16 days of activism against gender violence and so I wanted to highlight December’s Carnival against sexual violence, hosted by abyss2hope. Categories include legal, media watch, personal stories, raising awareness, research, and my fave solutions, which has a link off to shakesville’s excellent What Men Can Do. A few especially…
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Two articles on Obama and one on Hillary from the Atlantic
There were a couple of interesting articles about this year’s presidential election in this month’s Atlantic. Andrew Sullivan suggests in Goodbye to all that that Obama’s real significance is that “unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America—finally—past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has long engulfed all…