Another Odd Guru

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 4/22/08 | IBD Editorial

[Ramius]

Another Odd Guru

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:20 PM

PT Election '08:

Killing God and destroying the right to private property are usually associated with communism. They also seem important to the prominent legal theorist serving as Barack Obama's technology adviser.

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Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig likes to treat his audiences to a short video that doesn't always go over so well. In it, Jesus Christ lip-syncs Gloria Gaynor's late '70s disco hit "I Will Survive," during which he strips down to just a diaper, effeminately struts along a city street and finally gets run over by a speeding bus. Lessig showed the film during his keynote address to the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco in 2006 (reportedly causing audience members to exit in disgust), as well as to an assembled group of Google employees recently.

The antics of a trendy left-wing law school teacher who doubles as cybergeek would normally be of little note. But a few years down the information superhighway we may be speaking of Justice Lawrence Lessig should Obama be elected president. Lessig and Obama were colleagues at the University of Chicago Law School.

Lessig's role today in the Obama campaign is not officially defined, but he campaigned passionately for him in Pennsylvania, where Lessig grew up and went to college, and has been utilized by the campaign to explain the candidate's positions on Internet law to the press.

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[Ramius]

Well, I didn’t agree with them about slavery. So there’s that.

[Gordon Greene]

Holy imbecile’s, Batman!

This guy is more of a teflon king than Clinton ever imagined!

Something has got to bring this guy down to size... but what!?!?