Daily Archives: July 29, 2003

Late Night Reading

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If you are wondering whether the NY Times talks more about Michael Moore or Ann Coulter then head over to Virginia Postrel’s place to find out.
Arnold Kling, EconLog, asks ‘What is a safe investment nowadays?”
Have you done the boogaloo! Languagethat talks about the boogaloo and punctuation.
Short Hope Unfiltered takes a look at Larry Sabato’s current predictions for the 2004 Presidential election.
If you’ve been out of touch the the seminal issues of the day for a while head over to Busy Busy Busy where you can get the ‘Cliff Note’ version. Begin with the Shorter William Rasberry and work down the page.
Good Night!

Legal Double Bind

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Situation: You are a defense attorney whose client is charged with possessing pornography. As part of preparing your defense you have copies of the alleged pornographic material. Should you be charged with the same crime? One prosecuter thinks so. See Talkleft for the full story. It sure seems to me that you ought to be able to do your job without being subject to this kind of catch-22.

FCC and Your Listening Choices

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Inspired by a particularly gross talk show episode the FCC is looking to envigorate their efforts “to crackdown on indecency in broadcasting“:

The agency not only warned Infinity that it might lose its license if it does not clean up its act, but announced that any broadcaster who runs afoul of the vague indecency standard will face “strong enforcement actions, including the potential initiation of revocation proceedings.”

Given apparent ongoing congressional intent to oversee our reading and listening habits I suspect we will not be able to look to congress to properly slap the FCC as it has done regarding the media ownership issue. So this FCC behaviour is likely to end up in the courts hopefully it will be tossed out with the trash.