Agoraphilia (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
As part of a revise-and-resubmit process, I've been spending much of my summer upgrading my draft book, Intellectual Privilege: A Libertarian View of Copyright. That effort has led me to revisit copyright's constitutional foundations. I find them very shaky, indeed. This passage (with footnotes excerpted) explains why modern copyright law often fails "to promote the Progress of Science and the...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 04/25/2009
William Hill are offering odds of 8/1 that the Government will have to go to the IMF for a loan before the General Election takes place. 'Having to go cap in hand to the IMF would be the ultimate humiliation for Messrs Brown and Darling, but there are plenty of punters prepared to bet that it will happen.Political betting has become so popular that we are already predicting a £20m+ betting turnover...
Daily Referendum (Free subscription) | 04/14/2009
From William Hill: WITH GORDON BROWN once again under pressure, William Hill make him a 2/7 shot to cease to be Prime Minister during 2010, and offer 5/2 that he will go during 2009. He is 33/1 to go in 2011 and 25/1 in 2012. Harriet Harman is 4/1 favourite to succeed Brown as Labour Leader with Hills who also offer 6/1 Alan Johnson; 7/1 Ed Miliband; David Miliband; 8/1 Jon Crudass; James Purnell....
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
The earliest-known Boston novel is William Hill Brown's "The Power of Sympathy," published in 1789, and written, as was the custom of the time, as a series of letters describing a romance that ends in tragedy when it is revealed that the lovers are, unknown to themselves, brother and sister.
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