I guarantee that workarounds will be found. They always are. Deposit money with a bank registered in a third country, and that bank will than handle your account with the casinos. The U.S. can't prevent the initial transfer, and after that everything is legal.

Epstein wants us to ignore the limited rights and limited times granted copyright and patents by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. He wants to ignore the country's early industrial history, which depended heavily on theft of IP from England (and elsewhere).

Note, however, the process. The newspapers didn't run anything because they could not verify it. The TV network ran what it had on its Web site, and thus got the story.

This is the kind of thing that can keep you in your home, instead of putting you in nursing care when your time comes. Embed the sensors in something like an UnderArmour shirt (grandpa wants to style), run the data through an ordinary WiFi router, use cellular text messaging for the alerts. Now you're aging in place instead of in some strange place.

Gerrymandering builds levees around incumbents. In a wave election the levees break. Republicans may wake up on November 8 to find themselves in the political equivalent of the Ninth Ward.

I really didn’t intend to address this, but I can’t help myself. Payback’s a bitch, ain’t it? The Republican Party rises to power in Congress promising reform, has its greatest moment (in its own eyes) looking askance at Bill Clinton getting a hummer from an intern, then goes down to defeat because it covered up […]

The more people you have in on a decision, the worse that decision will be. On the other hand, when you have many people making their own decisions, the greater the likelihood that one of those decisions will be outstanding.

If you can keep your head while all about you others are losing theirs you just don't know the situation.

Dean is engaged in the practical politics of open source, not just the online version. He doesn't want the Internet to live just in the ether, but also in the real world. While everything about Republican strategy remains proprietary.

Is there anyone out there, any conservative, who really believes at this late date that we're winning in Iraq? Anyone? So change tactics, dammit. Don't just leave our best men and women out in the field, getting turned into hamburger, for your damned ego!