Yes, it’s a political issue…

June 14, 2007 in China, First Amendment, Food Safety, Globalization, Public Health

First, there were several stories of toothpaste containing diethylene glycol (DEG) in China.
OK, well, we have the FDA here right? They investigate stuff like this, so we are safe right?

Forgive us our (virtual) trespasses..

June 11, 2007 in Censorship, Church of England, First Amendment, Intellectual Property, Media Environment, Sony

As reported by the BBC, the Church of England is considering legal action against Sony:
Cathedral row over video war game
9 June 2007
The Church of England is considering legal action against entertainment firm Sony for featuring Manchester Cathedral in a violent PlayStation video game. The Church says Sony did not obtain permission to use [...]

Don’t you dare make our food safe: this is America!

June 6, 2007 in 2008 Elections, First Amendment, Food Safety, Public Health, Thoughtcrime

Well, since there have been 3 cases of BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA, a Kansas-based farm, Creekstone, wants to test all of its Cows for BSE. Not so fast, says the Bush administration, which had filed suit to stop the testing from being done. Note that Creekstone does only want to [...]

Words to live by…

June 4, 2007 in 2008 Elections, Finally, Satire

Condi had some interesting things to say while criticizing Hugo Chavez, who has, we should be reminded, actually won each and every of the elections he has stood in. The BBC reports this rather straightly, not indicating if Condi was even aware of the irony here:
“Freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of [...]

Patrick Ross, wikipedia contributor

June 2, 2007 in Corporate Fascism, First Amendment, Free Culture, IP Central, Wikipedia

Noticed a post at TLF by Tim Lee about James de Long leaving the PFF, and in that post it was mentioned that Patrick Ross had also departed PFF. James, like Patrick, had a habit of putting up straw man arguments and taking them apart. Tim Lee did an excellent job of [...]