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 Thursday, December 12, 2002
www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish - Lott must go "CHARLES CUTS THROUGH THE CLUTTER: Krauthammer comes through again: What is so appalling about Lott's remarks is not the bigotry but the blindness. One should be very hesitant about ascribing bigotry. It is hard to discern what someone feels in his heart of hearts. It is less hard to discern what someone sees, particularly if he tells you. Lott sees the civil rights movement and "all these problems over all these years." He missed the whole story. Backbenchers might be permitted such a lack of vision. Leaders are not. Lott must step down. Exactly right. "

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 What Strom said. Listen to this NPR report to hear Sen. Strom Thurmond's comments during his 1948 presidential run. A transcript of what this dirty, old racist said:"What I want to tell you ... Ladies and Gentlemen ... That there's not enough troops in the Army . [Idle Type]

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 Fire Trent Lott [New York Times: Opinion] Amen.

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OpenP2P.com: Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution [Dec. 11, 2002] 

"And that's the ultimate lesson. "Give the wookie what he wants!" as Han Solo said so memorably in the first Star Wars movie. Give it to him in as many ways as you can find, at a fair price, and let him choose which works best for him."

Tim O'Reilly argues persuasively that exposure is more important to artists than copy protection, that customers are eager to pay for access to large collections of books and music, and that they will pay extra for premium services.  Tha nation's increasingly restrictive copyright laws and their increasingly draconian penalties benefit only a small group of oligopolistic companies with an outdated business model.


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