Author: Mark Draughn

  • Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

    I’ve been a Weird Al fan since the beginning, so yeah, I’d go see this. Read more

  • WFTC: We Don’t Work For the Money

    In my latest piece for When Falls the Coliseum, I try to explain why we work, and it’s not for the money. To be honest, I kind of rushed this piece out to meet my self-imposed goal of posting something on WFTC every week. It’s really not very good. I wouldn’t read it if I… Read more

  • Census Form! Entrapment! Beware!

    I just got my 2010 Census form in the mail. I assume some of you got one too. You may have noticed that the cover letter includes the following paragraph: This is your official 2010 Census form. We need your help to count everyone in the United States by providing basic information about all the… Read more

  • Time To Put Email In an Envelope

    Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice has a long-running debate with the Volokh Conspiracy‘s Orin Kerr over how search and seizure laws should apply in the digital world. Briefly, Kerr advocates what he calls a “technology neutral” approach, in which we try to create a mapping between real world concepts and their digital analogs in order to apply centuries of… Read more

  • When Falls the Coliseum

    When Falls the Coliseum is a way-cool group blog run by Scott Stein. I know its cool because (1) an earlier version of the site had posts and comments just like a blog even though it launched in 1999 and had to be administered by hand because nobody had written blogging software yet, (2) Nick… Read more