Law

When I can't put my own thoughts into any better words than others already have, I just blog about and link to them...

FIRST THINGS: The Fear of Being Viewed as Insufficiently Progressive

People who are not intimidated by the fear of being thought insufficiently progressive can also consult their common sense. They may even be so bold as to protest that it is morally repugnant to subject children to a social experiment that is manifestly driven by the desire of adults to satisfy their disordered emotional and erotic appetites.

Banned in Boston

"How much of the coming threat to religious liberty actually stems from same-sex marriage? These experts' comments make clear that it is not only gay marriage, but also the set of ideas that leads to gay marriage--the insistence on one specific vision of gay rights--that has placed church and state on a collision course. Once sexual orientation is conceptualized as a protected status on a par with race, traditional religions that condemn homosexual conduct will face increasing legal pressures regardless of what courts and Congress do about marriage itself."

UK report: knowledge should be public good first, private right second
  The third model in this article (also the one recommended by the commission) makes tons of sense to me.  When knowledge (more precisely known as Intellectual Property, and confusingly abbreviated as IP) is just a commodity, as it basically is in America, the process of creativity is isolated away from everyday life and everyday people.

Sadly, Americans generally take it as truth that intellectual property is primarily property, the possession of an individual or company.  Secondarily, almost reluctantly, property is given up at some arbitrary point in the future to become "public domain."  Why?  The average American couldn't tell you why, just that that's what we've always done.