An E.Coli's Last Message to President Obama.

"Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was worth billions of dollars to corporate America," extrapolating from evidence that his death has denied them the chance to make off with billions more.

Two Florida schoolchildren face felony charges for putting red pepper in a teacher's soda.

The school should punish them, but taking it to court is incompetence on the school's part.

I reject the practice of calling teenagers "children" merely because they are minors, but these are 12 years old, not even teenagers. They really are children.

AT&T gave 62 thousand dollars to Missouri state legislators to get a committee to approve a bill to block municipal internet access in that state.

Even if they have to pay 10 times as much to get the whole legislature to approve the bill, AT&T will get tremendous return on investment.

Two of the computational idea patents Apple used to attack Samsung have been invalidated by a court.

That's a victory for software freedom, but an limited and extremely expensive one. We need to protect software from all patents on computational ideas, all at once.

These patents are often called "software patents", but that term gives the wrong idea of what such patents do. A patent is never associated with any specific code. Rather, it is a monopoly on implementing some specific, stated idea & in these cases, a computational idea. Any code which implements the patented idea, or any hardware which does, can be the basis for a lawsuit.

Another solution I've proposed is to legislate that software is exempt from patent law.

This illustrates the error of focusing on "patent trolls" and ignoring other patent aggressors. Apple is the biggest patent aggressor in the software field, and we can hardly call it a patent troll. Its products are full of proprietary software

with malicious functionalities, but they are certainly a real business.