• Tighter copyright law could save newspapers: Connie Schult

I was considering writing a whole post about this, but I’ll sum up: if, impossibly, she were to get her way I’d want to be a corrupt gov’t official or amoral story thief. I could get out of front of any scoop newspapers ever had, just by spreading around my story under something like a CC license while theirs was in its new copyright prison. An information spreading source that thinks it will benefit by keeping its information locked up is very funny.

• “Say you were the editor of Wired. And one of your reporters filed a story that had chunks of barely-rewritten Wikipedia. What would you do?”

I might be able to give some insight into this question, but I choose not to.

• And the original Mothra v Mothra.

Watching Chris Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell argue makes me dizzy in a way only reading something rigorously peer reviewed can help.

• An argument against gay marriage: apparently, secretly, all men are gay.

I’ve thought about it, and decided I can live with that. I’m a brave girl.

• Insurance is “An umbrella that melts in the rain.”

More anti-news about how our lack of single payer or state run healthcare is making us poor as well as sick. Given the global financial crisis, it’s making everyone else poor too.

• Joel Stein on California’s State of Insanity.

I’ve always had a deep and abiding hate for my home state’s system of direct democracy. It’s ruined the schools, taken away civil rights, and is at this point bankrupting the state.

• Infinite Summer
• Infinite Jest Index
• Infinite Summer Progress Tracker, blah blah blah.

Yes, me too. Ok?