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...] about Time To Put Email In an Envelope
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 Gillespie likes it, and (3) I'm now one of the contributors to it. My first piece is … [Read more...] about When Falls the Coliseum
Cruelty In the Name of Fair Immigration
A few days ago, the fine folks at Popehat explained why they want to kick a harmless German immigrant family out of the country. The Popehat guys seem like nice folks, so I assume they don't mean it the way it sounds, 'cause it sounds pretty bad. The Romeike family didn't like the way the public schools taught their children, and so they wanted to homeschool them. … [Read more...] about Cruelty In the Name of Fair Immigration
The Failed War On Drugs
I don't know anything else about Jim Gray, but this is about as good an explanation as I've ever seen of how the War on Drugs fails so badly: … [Read more...] about The Failed War On Drugs
The Horrors of Oscar Night
Well, the Academy Awards were last night, and I'm sure all the trendy ironic folks will be making the usual comments about Hollywood self-congratulation, but I mostly enjoyed it. I like movies, and I think good filmmaking deserves to be honored. I do have one nit to pick, however, with the movie montage they showed as part of their salute to horror movies. Less than halfway … [Read more...] about The Horrors of Oscar Night