The Lippard Blog

The FCC rule on "fleeting expletives," permitting massive fines even for individual occurrences of the "seven words you can&#...

Commenter Tim H pointed me to a post at Tim Martin's Beyond Creation Science blog about another Answers in Genesis controversy . Old-ea...

Science writer Simon Singh (author of The Code Book on yesterday's list of science books ) is a columnist for The Guardian, for which h...

The FFRF billboards planned for Phoenix that were supposed to be launched on August 18 have been postponed after CBS Outdoor became uncomfor...

A parent complained about Sarah Brannen's book, Uncle Bobby's Wedding , about same-sex marriage, that was in the children's book...

Tom Gilson closed the comments at his Thinking Christian blog post about P.Z. Myers calling in to the presenter line on an "Expelled&qu...

As ZDNet reports , yesterday afternoon, in response to a government order to filter YouTube (AS 36561), Pakistan Telecom (AS 17557, pie.net....

As reported in Wired's blog : Wikileaks, the whistleblower site that recently leaked documents related to prisons in Iraq and Guantana...

The Parents Television Council, the organization that is responsible for generating over 99.8% of all indecency complaints to the FCC , has ...

Higley, Arizona School District director of visual and performing arts Tara Kissane stopped a performance of "The Complete Works of Wil...

FCC Kevin Martin has responded to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on "fleeting expletives," which not only went...

Arizona Senate Majority Leader Thayer Verschoor (R-Gilbert) is at it again, with a bill that prohibits any public school or college instruct...

Ross Anderson and Tyler Moore have published a nice paper that gives an overview of recent research in the economics of information security...

Talking Points Memo has been collecting examples of information (website content, reports, studies, etc.) that the Bush administration has s...

As an undergraduate, I read Victor Marchetti and John Marks' book, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence . Marchetti, a former CIA offic...

The San Francisco-based Landmark Education , an offshoot of Werner Erhard's est, has been misusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ...

Independent filmmaker Brett Hanover made a very nice little one-hour film called "The Bridge," about the Church of Scientology, w...

Comedy Central has pulled the "Trapped in the Closet" episode , which criticizes and exposes Scientology , from reruns. Rumor has...

That's a picture of me on September 9, 1995 in front of the Church of Scientology in Mesa, Arizona, picketing about the "Cancel poo...

As per Majikthise and Pharyngula : How many books on the American Library Association's most-challenged books list have you read? App...