"Would it be possible to ask the companies who participate in the go!pass program to tell you which go!passes are being distributed to (i) people who are too poor to drive and (ii) criminals who have had their licenses taken away?

It would be great to be able to study the bus boarding patterns of the poor people versus the criminals."

"I think we can see in these moves a common historical pattern: when the structures that give a powerful institution strength start to weaken, it reaches for a new level of authority not based in the previous structure and therefore not susceptible to weakening."

"What makes this case particularly nasty is that a large company successfully forced its will on another company based solely on a specious claim of trademark infringement. The next step for an ambitious company, of course, is to demand further control over how a site links to its content. After all, if you can get a judge who doesn't seem to understand the concept of hyperlinking, who knows what you can get away with under the guise of trademark infringement."

"Along the same lines, Obama forgets—or neglects—that the Civil Rights movement not only called on America to live up to its constitutional promises of equality; it called on American citizens to enter into a new way of relating to one another. It did so with a constant impatience with the way things were, a relentless, increasingly radical unwillingness to accept the status quo that would quite disturb Obama the bipartisan peacemaker."