I bookmarked this one to post up last week and never got to it. Court Overturns Fathers Grounding of 12 Year Old. More coverage here. As a parent all I can say is the end is nigh.

I am not opposed to creators making money with copyright by any means, but I am very much in favor of creators respecting fair use as part of the trade off. What is fair use you ask? This video explains it nicely.

The Associated Press has managed the difficult feat of uniting the left and right activists on the issue of fair use quotes from their articles. The AP thinks it should be paid $12.50 if you quote five words from one of their articles. The AP does have a case in places where people post their [...]

Right after 9-11 I flew to the UK and back and there was very heavy security, but nobody minded at all. The risks were still unknown and we all wanted to be safe. Now however we are pretty aware of the risks, ranging as they do from shoe bombs to chemical bombs and the like [...]

Many are worried in England and abroad that the English are forgetting who they are and fading away as a culture. I say that the Lion of England can never fall while the cheese still rolls. God save the Queen and protect us from the Nanny State.

So lets say you are a principaled music fan, you only buy legal music online and the whole Digital Rights Management thing never really bothered you. You bought a ton of music from Microsoft, they are the biggest guys in town so you know you are risk free right? Right. Microsoft is about to turn [...]

I have strong feelings that the government of the United States is being corrupted at a very basic level. The organization Change Congress has recently been formed to try to fight this. I don’t agree with absolutely everything in this presentation, but I believe that this effort is an important one and despite my differences [...]

This is the best reply that could possibly be written to the hateful bigot Sally Kerns. Stay strong Tucker. Her original tirade can be found here.

They say the mafia perfected the shakedown, but tax officials in West Virginia apparently can teach the mafia some new tricks (second story down). Hey we made you a nice offer, you didn’t listen, now something bad just might happen, you never know…
Via Fark which has some comments that may mitigate the story somewhat.

The amiable but clearly addlepated Archbishop of Canterbury declared that imposing Sharia law over England is inevitable. It is interesting that he only picks Sharia Law for special privilege. I am surprised as Jews have lived in England for quite awhile (at least since the Expulsion Act of 1290 was rescinded in 1656), yet the [...]