On August 21st, President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina sent the first-ever text message donation to a presidential campaign–a whopping $10. While the Obama campaign is no stranger to six-figure contributions, it hopes this development will encourage small donors to give “whatever they can afford.” This innovative use of [...]
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On June 24, 2012, the Los Angeles County of Museum Art unveiled the most recent addition to its collection: “Levitated Mass.” ”Levitated Mass” is a 340 ton boulder placed on two pieces of steel and centered over a long, thin hole in the ground, giving [...]
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Few moments in a playwright’s life can compare to the anticipation, thrill, and excitement of opening night. Many are so fraught with nerves they can’t even watch. But on the opening night of his new play, “3C,” playwright David Adjmi found himself battling not only nervous jitters, but a squadron of lawyers [...]
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The efforts of the courts and their officials to bring the guilty to punishment, praiseworthy as they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principles established by years of endeavor and suffering which have resulted in their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land. – Justice Day, Weeks v. [...]
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Bloods. Crips. Latin Kings. Juggalos. Which one may or may not be like the others? Insane Clown Posse is a Detroit-based rap-group composed of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. Both performers also paint their entire faces in distinctive [...]
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Apple awarded $1.05 billion in its patent suit against Samsung. Lance Armstrong stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles, along with 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis. Federal courts approve new model rules for jurors which explicitly forbid [...]
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“We think that these patent wars are not helpful to consumers. They’re not helpful to the marketplace. They’re not helpful to innovation.” These are the words of Pablo Chavez, Google’s Public Policy Director, who, questioned the utility
of the current patent system at the Technology Policy Institute on Monday. Google has taken [...]
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Even as a child, it seemed to be a given that there was freedom of religion, speech, and press. We are taught that these are universal and fundamental rights—memorialized, rather than created, by the Bill of Rights. Yet many would argue that a recent Russian judicial decision serves as a reminder that that [...]
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The Drug Enforcement Administration recently dropped charges against a fugitive doctor charged in the nation’s largest prosecution of internet pharmacies because there was simply too much evidence. That’s right, too much evidence, not too little.
In 2007, Armando Angulo was indicted for a multimillion dollar scheme in which he sold [...]
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On a chilly summer evening in San Francisco’s AT&T Park, Melky Cabrera strode to the plate, one hit away from history. Arizona Diamondbacks relief pitcher Bryan Shaw delivered the pitch that “The Melk-man” drove into the history books for the most hits in month by a San Francisco Giant. The record had been held for [...]
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