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An Intellectual Property Debate Continued
A tongue-in-cheek post by Justin Kownacki and a debate at Podcamp Pittsburgh 4 with Justin, Tami Dixon, Steve Klabnik, and Nick Pinkston has inspired some thoughts about intellectual property (IP). I...
View ArticleRight Punishment, Wrong Lesson
Sometimes public humiliation is an appropriate punishment. To wit: Women who stole from girl, 9, hold public signs of shame “A woman and her daughter are outside the Bedford County Courthouse holding...
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An Intellectual Property Debate Broadcast
Remember that Podcamp Pittsburgh IP debate I told you about? Well, the video has finally been uploaded. Now the whole world can hear my nasal voice.
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Mayor Ravenstahl’s Snow Job
Updates follow the post body a typical Pittsburgh neighborhood street after the storm Snowmageddon. Snowpocalypse. SnOMG. Whatever you call it, we knew it was coming, and we knew it would be bad. If...
View ArticleProgressives, Conservatives, and Health Care Reform
As the final vote for the Democrats’ health care reform bill got closer, the frantic attempts by Republicans to stop it reminded me of a rather apt G.K. Chesterton quote. “The whole modern world has...
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Liberty, Law, and Civil Rights
Rand Paul (photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons) Recently the Republican nominee for one of Kentucky’s senate seat, Rand Paul, dared to question the 1964 passing of the Civil Rights Act (or did...
View ArticleLe Cordon Bleu And You
The Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts in Pittsburgh is closing next year. Normally, this wouldn’t really phase me much, as I don’t have any interest in attending culinary school. I like to...
View ArticleSacred and Secular Marriage: Pius XI
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s...
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Read the Bills Amendment
No legislation without representation! The following text is borrowed from Downsize DC, and I agree with it. I’d like to add to it, though. Let’s make it a constitutional amendment! Downsize DC...
View ArticleLoyal to the PA Liquor Monopoly?!
The PLCB (Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board) has a monopoly on the sale of wine and spirits in the state. “A monopoly is a grant of special privilege by the State, reserving a certain area of...
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