Monopoly Controls Have Been The Exception In

I Don't Care If The Koch Brothers Or Soros Spend Their Money To Promote One Candidate Or Another. I Care About Members Of Congress Spending 30%-70% Of Their Time Raising Money From .05% Of Us. Change The Way We Fund Elections And You Change The Corruption.

The Current Term Of Protection For Software Is The Life Of An Author Plus 70 Years, Or, If It's Work-for-hire, A Total Of 95 Years. This Is A Bastardization Of The Constitution's Requirement That Copyright Be For "limited Times."

Creation Always Involves Building Upon Something Else. There Is No Art That Doesn't Reuse. And There Will Be Less Art If Every Reuse Is Taxed By The Appropriator.

It's Fine To Talk About Politics With People You Agree With. But It Is Rude To Argue About Politics With People You Disagree With. Political Discourse Becomes Isolated, And Isolated Discourse Becomes More Extreme.

Remember The Refrain: We Always Build On The Past; The Past Always Tries To Stop Us. Freedom Is About Stopping The Past, But We Have Lost That Ideal.