Tom Morris

31 January 2008

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

Ophelia has a write-up of Archbishop Rowan Williams’ speech on blasphemy and freedom of speech.

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Ed Brayton has a story about identity politics eating itself - namely, a feminist group blasting Ted Kennedy for being against women’s rights because he supports Obama. Urgh. Group rights and identity politics are the markers of liberalism’s decline into irrelevant bickering.

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Ian Forrester has a list of good conferences that are coming up in the next few months including SemanticCamp.

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MediaWatchWatch and Eugene Volokh have thoughts on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s statement on free speech.

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Despite the impending threat of serious pwnage by the Swedish legal system, the kids over at The Pirate Bay seem quite happy. Now, children, don’t steal other people’s copyrighted content, it’s naughty!

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