Why Europe still doesn’t get the Internet
By Declan McCullagh
June 16, 2003, 4:00 AM PT
One of the finest days in Internet law dawned on June 12, 1996, when U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell wrote an opinion that was remarkable for its clarity and prescience. At the time, Dalzell was serving on a three-judge panel that rejected [...]
I was skimming old books in my office library when I came across an anthology of public policy pieces circa 1998. I was struck by the quote below:
Your first Duties .. are .. to Humanity. You are men before you are citizens or fathers .. But what can each of you, with his isolated powers, [...]
Here is an excerpt from “Writing to Change the World” written by Mary Pipher. Beautiful. Poignant. Powerful.
“A few years ago, I visited a market on the Burmese border. It was a profoundly unsettling experience. I walked past frightened, impoverished people hawking Leonardo DiCaprio beach towels, dried fish, Nike knockoffs, and counterfeit cigarettes. [..] Everyone [...]
SUMMERTIME
by E.B. White
Summertime this year is a ripe girl who finds herself forsaken by the boys, the ordinarily attentive and desirous boys. They are nowhere to be found; they have disappeared, the way males do, seized by some sudden mechanical flirtation, some new interest of a passing sort. Summertime is a girl who knows they [...]
Let me share this quote with you as a reminder that we live in a vast universe that is evolving, changing, right before our eyes. Our self-absorption and concern about little details may prevent us from looking outward, in awe of how our humble existence is connected to the broader tableau of life. Faced with [...]
I’ve been looking for this untitled free verse since the ERAP 5 abduction bit public consciousness. For those who have been instinctively groping for the same poem in light of current events, here it is courtesy of www.everything2.com.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came [...]
(Note: I’m publishing excerpts from this recent interview of ANC’s Ricky Carandang with Senate President Franklin M. Drilon to allow bloggers to get a handle on Senate issues including the forthcoming change in the Senate leadership.)
Q: During the press conference this afternoon, you said it twice, you are not turning it over with a heavy [...]
(Based on the book with the same title published by Dearborn Trade Publishing and authored by Eric Yaverbaum)
I am now reading Eric Yaverbaum’s “Leadership Secrets of the World’s Most Successful CEOs. While reading the advice of such competent and successful corporate leaders, I couldn’t help but analyze their experiences and comments from the vantage point [...]
(These are excerpts from the Recto Reader edited by no less than respected nationalist historian Renato Constantino)
The free and ordered life of our nation depends upon the preservation of the Constitution. Without its orderly processes and guarantees, its discerning allocation of governmental authority, and its calculated system of checks and balances, it would be difficult, [...]
Excerpt from “The Power of the Powerless”, an essay written by Vaclav Havel during his days as a “dissident” in Czechoslovakia. Havel’s essay has had a profound impact on Eastern Europe and the Solidarity Movement during the Cold War era.
“Between the aims of the post-totalitarian system and the aims of life, there is a yawning [...]
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