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Court tokes up student speech rights

I’ve been hoping Dahlia Lithwick would weigh in on the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” student speech case. And so she has. We’ve come a long way since “Fuck the Draft,” y’all.

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Adapting Zioncheck: a discussion with Phil Campbell

Phil Campbell, a writer and friend of mine, announced last week that Zioncheck for President, his memoir about an ill-fated Seattle city council campaign, has been optioned by Stephen Gyllenhaal. Campbell and I talked at length several years ago — well before the James Frey debacle — about the care he took to get his facts right. So I was . . .

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Blogs and the press, part 17,593

Revile blogs. Or don’t revile them. Whichever. But any general denunciation of blogging that fails to acknowledge the excellent likes of Talking Points Memo is just sloppy.

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