Debate Coaches Gone Wild

Somehow, I can’t picture my 72-year-old debate coach back in high school flying off the handle like this. One more sign of the apocalypse, I suppose.

As Jon Sanders at The Locker Room says:
But what to call it? Argument Ab Natibus or a form of Reductio Ad Nudum Corpum? Or perhaps simply the Ace Ventura Technique?

Infowar: Like Copying a Web Page

Someone’s got a handle on how the Russians disrupted Georgia’s Internet links. Frighteningly easy, it was.

McCain Gets Techy

John McCain lays out his tech policy, and there’s a lot of good news in it for Big Media. Among other things, he opposes net neutrality. I’ve said it before and will say it again: Someone needs to take the Constitution’s idea of time-limited copyright (as opposed to Congress’ defacto extension of perpetual copyrights) seriously. [...]