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A Cline Chrestomathy
By Edward Cline ~ Nothing will replace physical books. There is a certain satisfaction to be had and valued in seeing the physical, existential, three-dimensional form of a book – one’s own or someone else’s – in having it on hand without needing to click a mouse or scroll through screen pages. Perhaps the entire […]
Australian Media Inquiry Wants To Control Even Blogs With One Reader A Day
By Andrew Bolt ~ Niche modeller Dr David Stockwell wonders if the media inquiry understands the blog sites it wants the Federal Government to police: The Media Inquiry by Finkelstein Q.C. proposed on page 301 the regulation of blogs with more than a specific number of hits per annum, suggesting an equivalency with print media: […]
Colorado Judge Stays Righthaven Copyright Suits
By Wendy Davis A federal judge in Colorado is temporarily halting proceedings in all 35 active lawsuits in the state brought by copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven. In a ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge John Kane said there were “serious questions” about whether Righthaven has the right to sue for infringement of material that […]
Righthaven Faces New Challenges In Court
By Wendy Davis - The Daily Online Examiner Copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven hasn’t had much luck lately. First, the company got into a public fight with a federal judge in Colorado. Righthaven last week filed papers withdrawing its poorly thought-out lawsuit against the autistic 20-year-old blogger Brian Hill, but added some gratuitous comments berating Hill […]
Milestones – Three Years
March 26, 2011 by TonyfromOz
In the big scheme of things, I might suppose that contributing to a Blog for three years might not seem very much, but it constitutes a body of work over those years. That body of work now entails almost 900 separate Posts, and probably even more than that. That three year milestone happened during the […]
Righthaven Hits Toronto Star With Infringement Suit
By Wendy Davis Last year, when former Las Vegas Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick wrote that his company had “grubstaked” copyright enforcement outright Righthaven, he publicly urged other newspapers to join the new litigation initiative. At the time Righthaven had filed 22 copyright infringement lawsuits against bloggers, small publishers and nonprofits who allegedly reposted all or […]
Milestones (Part Two)
March 16, 2010 by TonyfromOz
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS If you have not read Part One, read it first: Milestones (Part One) In that Part One, I mentioned the first post I submitted and also that first series of posts I submitted, The Kyoto Series. As I mentioned, I would compose the post and then send it by email […]
Milestones (Part One)
March 16, 2010 by TonyfromOz
PART ONE OF TWO PARTS Today marks another of those milestones that almost seem to creep up on you without your even noticing. Two years ago this morning, my first post was submitted to this Blog site. Before that first post here, I had already been contributing on a small scale to a Car Care […]
The Nightmare Began – Rhoades and Senavitis
From the blog of fightingback1: On the morning of Friday, October 17, 2008 Mr. Senavitis awoke excited knowing that on this evening him and his wife were going to go away alone for the first time in a very long time. Mr. Senavitis, making sure all the loss ends were tied up before they left, […]
Our Big Blog
November 7, 2009 by TonyfromOz
Sometimes it’s hard to actually judge the relative size of your Blog, because there are just so many of them these days. We would like to think of our Blog as being one of the Big ones, but we have no illusions on that front. What we really would like to do is to actually […]
What Do Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Elvis Presley And 9-11 Have In Common?
(A Heartbreaking 9-11 Message To President Obama. Some words of advice for the President as we mark eight years since one of the darkest days in American history.) Today marks eight years since one of the darkest days in American history. And I have spent days agonizing over what would be appropriate to commememorate the events […]
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TEA Party members like him are dangerous to Obamamerica. They have a warped sense of Justice and demand we all follow the Constitution and the Bill of Rights instead of what our Glorious Leaders want. Do not try to apprehend. Instead call Obama's Terrorist Hotline or the FBI.
American Minute
- American Minute for May 20thMAY 20, 1927, at 7:52am, one of the greatest feats in aviation began as 25-year-old Charles A. Lindbergh left Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, in his silver monoplane named "The Spirit of St. Louis." Thirty-three and a half hours later he landed in Paris, completing the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was decorated b […]
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