21 Jan 10

Sure, it weakens campaign finance laws, but the campaign finance laws were broken to begin with. They were more like a string of fenceposts rather than an actual fence. They won’t stop much—but might make you slow down enough to check you didn’t accidentally run into a pole. And maybe, once in a while, somebody careless would get snagged on a loose nail. If a few of those fence posts fall over, I won’t cry. The fence sucked.

Squashed: Free Speech, Corporate Speech, and Corporate money (via marco)

ok, why isn’t the term “passivist” or “economic pegboy” bandied about more frequently?

time dilation