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In-N-Out Merger
Does it feel like things are finally starting to turn a corner when it comes to online data privacy? It seems like a lot more people are starting to care about privacy, at least as an issue, if not as...
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The Power of Monomyth
It has been said that you can understand a culture by examining their founding mythology. What does that say when we find that our heroes are all the same across cultures? Does it mean, in the words of...
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The Boston “We” Party
The tragic bombing at the Boston Marathon yesterday was undoubtedly surreal to anyone who followed the events as they unfolded, myself included. For the first time that I can recall since September of...
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In GOOG We Antitrust
I’ve recently been introduced to Waze, a mapping application for iPhone and Android developed by an Israeli tech startup. It’s a pretty great app, one that leaped several plateaus as a result of the...
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Big Surveillance, Little Coverage
If you listen to the hype, the biggest bomb dropped on the United States in the War on Terror™ wasn’t an actual bomb. Instead, the United States’ body politic was shocked, shocked, to hear that the...
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Single Player
Quick shout out to Vermont, one of the most politically interesting places in the nation right now. They are a great reminder that federalism was baked into our political system so that the states...
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Nose Cut, Face Spited
Politicians in democracies like to make glossy statements like “the will of the people” or “the people have spoken” or even that they “represent the people.” If any such statements have been true in...
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Blockbuster Revelations
Re-watching Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón’s true masterpiece, during the government shutdown may not have been a good idea. Or maybe it was the best idea. Relative to Children of Men, Gravity is a...
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A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
Critics have described The Wolf of Wall Street as Casino meets GoodFellas but without the violence (if you decline to classify visceral drug and sex abuse as self-inflicted violence). In the long...
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Rival Video
By now, it is probably no news to you that President Obama was on an episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. Not only did “President Barack Hussein Obamacare” (as Scott Aukerman [Between...
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