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This past Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court struck down Florida’s Opportunity Scholarship program, [PDF opinion] a voucher system allowing parents of students at substandard public schools to receive state assistance to send them to private schools. Voucher critics, namely the teachers’ unions and the ACLU, opposed the program primarily because some of the [...]

I’m not expert enough to form an opinion on whether or not the President’s authorization of warrantless wiretaps is legal or not - and there are some pretty bright minds arguing for pro and con on that point - but legal or not, these actions should be a cause of great alarm to all those [...]

If your butcher told you he was vegan, would you doubt him? If your gun shop owner told you he was religiously opposed to killing? How about your rabbi with a deep faith in the messiah Jesus Chirst?
You’d wonder what kind of axe they had to grind.
Now, via Sticks of Fire, [...]

This week saw some significant revelations in the comedy of errors that we all know as the Xbox360 launch. In the wake of widespread reports of defects in the console, a Chicago man has filed what promises to be a significant class-action products-liability lawsuit against Microsoft.
The proposed class action suit claims that in Microsoft’s [...]

I said then:
The Photographer’s Rights primer (or “Photographer’s Bust Card”) is making the rounds again thanks to Boing Boing.
I think it’s important to repeat the warning from last year: this card covers only the act of taking the picture and has nothing to do with the photographer’s rights in publishing the picture. [...]

Last month, photographer Thomas Hawk thought he got a great deal on a camera through an online store. Turned out, the Brooklyn-based company was running a bait-and-switch scam. According to commenters, Hawk’s experience with Brooklyn-based bait and switch scams was not unique.
One enterprising soul decided to check out some of the online [...]

Tom points to the debate between Jeff Harrell and Derek Powazek about taking pictures in public places where they are supposedly prohibited.

For crimes of unusual savagery, where rehabilitation is unlikely, where the criminal poses a direct and imminent danger to the public should he escape or be released, and where guilt is shown by virtually certain objective evidence, I think the death penalty is an appropriate tool of our criminal justice system. For criminals like [...]

Compare and contrast:

The proposed typography (see also here) for an emphatic and profane way of saying “HUH?” (also known as the universal interrogative particle)
The logo of my wife’s former employer.

Discuss: Is this a branding fiasco in the making or potential subversive marketing serendpity?