I finished reading James Boyle’s The Public Domain last week (and yes, O ye e-text scoffers, I did read the whole thing onscreen), and recommend it highly to everyone interested in matters copyrightish. (Bias alert: I am, of course, predisposed to agree with Boyle’s arguments, given my s...

From yesterday's Letters to the Editor in the Washington Post: I was appalled by Richard Cohen's Jan. 27 column ["Torture? Prosecute Us, Too"]. So a little bit of torture is acceptable because the torturers and their superiors had their hearts in the right place? I disagree. Even more ridiculous was...

I apologize for the amount of bloggy navel-gazing recently; stuff just keeps happening. So, yes, looks like poor old CavLec gets around, indeed it does. Of late I’ve been getting email responses to the tune of one response for every other post, which is ridiculous. Posts get under the noses of...

Of all the things that were not supposed to happen, CavLec becoming a demi-deity in the library firmament tops my personal list. Yes, I know I say that a lot, but I don’t say it to turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy, if you know what I mean and I’m sure you do. I say it because my l...

Chalk it up to the weekend? Anyway, we're now losing to both the Panda AND Jesus. TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. Vote, my minions! If you do, LeBlanc might just have something special cooked up for y'all soon....

What does a bitch have to do to get you people to vote? That damn Panda blog is beating us. Since when do a bunch of very large bitches get their asses kicked by some half-extinct, slow-moving vegetarians?? And when you're done with the fluff--but VERY IMPORTANT fluff!--pick up the phone and call yo...

You can vote once a day. So I'm gonna bug you all about it. In other "yay for voting" news, a really shitty article* in yesterday's NYT reports that the Dems intend to pass a Fair Pay Act, reinstating the understanding that victims of discrimination don't need to be mind readers that existed before ...

October was pretty much a month made for PSP as torrents of "news" about hairdos, shoes and fashions simply fell into my waiting lap. At first I resisted, but then threw up my hooves, surrendered to its siren-like call and went ahead and posted 129 items (!) about the stupidest month in American pol...

Hey! We've been nominated for Best Very Large Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards! Starting Monday y'all can vote for us here, and the other fine nominees here. Don't forget to vote for Black Women, Blow the Trumpet in the Small Blog category, both because she told us we'd been nominated (thanks, Black W...

JULY: 07-02: Condi came to the Xbox. 07-14: Win a dream date with Condi for $750,000. 07-15: Here's the moment I started falling in love with Cindy McCain. 07-22: Tragedy struck when Jordan's adorable Bear King shaved off his beard. For Obama. I swear, just as Bill Richardson would later. Barack Oba...