Where's the business model?

I am not a Murdoch fan, but I'm also no fan of watching old men have their money stolen from them.

Garrison Keillor is now close to the age Bob Hope was back in 1966. Keillor is 64.

Truth lies with what works, not with who pays. It lies with change, and victory will go to the society that is most flexible, not the one who allows those currently on top to stay there.

Using Web-based tools, of course, you can lead a mass of users as deep down the rabbit hole as any of them want to go, right into detailed arguments with folks like John Cooper. And we should make that available.

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This is what Ted Stevens wants to create. An unregulated monopoly for local Internet service, no choice for consumers, and taxes paid to the monopolist without the consequent responsibility to spend the money.

There is no such thing as "intellectual property." A song or invention is not land. It's not a building. If a right to ideas does not further the end of creating more, shouldn't those rights be limited?

The complaint and the ruling is that the people "buying" these edited movies are not buying the movies themselves, but a bowdlerized version of them. And the market is not being expanded because the editor is taking a cut -- the edited version costs the same as the original.

This is the new reality, this is what must be understood. Your place on the stage must be continually earned, and continually shared if you're to earn your keep there.