John Dizard : You came, you sang, you conquered
"Think of a hospital -- washed with disinfectants, its residents shot full of antibiotics. Most pathogens die, but the ones that live are supergerms, capable of breeding in pure Clorox and lunching on ampicillin. The Canadian cultural scene is not dissimilar. Any living forms are drenched with the disinfectant of government grants and bombarded with radiation from CBC talk shows. For original thinking to survive that selection process, it must be hardy indeed. In the States, by way of contrast, creative types are treated like free-range chickens, roaming where they please -- all the while carefully kept away from exposure to poisonous civil-service positions and protected from film-industry tax deals. The result: a class of pencil-necked culturati, unable to compete with red-blooded invaders from the North. Even Hollywood starlets are threatened. Think of poor Denise Richards in Wild Things; mere alligator food to the likes of Neve Campbell."
Meanwhile
today is
National Beaver Day. "You can lead a
beaver to water -- but he'll probably dam it."
Stuart Minor Benjamin : Stepping into the Same River Twice, Rapidly Changing Facts and the Appellate Process
"What if, for example, factual findings regarding the Internet on which the Supreme Court relied in Reno v. ACLU are now outdated, such that the Communications
Decency Act (CDA)--not a similar statute, but the CDA itself--merits new consideration as a possibly constitutional statute? Even more provocatively, what if
some of those findings were outdated by the time the Supreme Court decided the case, and the changes in the months after the district court issued its findings weakened the case for unconstitutionality? This Article will discuss the issues raised by both possibilities, focusing on changes during the appellate process."
Speaking of Canadian Kultur
the phone company is offering to buy one of the three national television networks. "The move for CTV is seen as part of BCE's strategy to acquire content for its numerous subsidiaries, including a joint venture between its own Sympatico Internet portal and Lycos."