This Week in Law Podcast #1
Mon, October 23, 2006 
The inaugural episode of of TWIL (aka 'This Week in Law'), hosted by Denise Howell is available here. I'm one of the panelists, along with John Palfrey and Catherine Kirkman. This week's guest is Hank Barry, the former CEO of Napster and also a former partner of the prestigious law firm of Wilson, Sonsini. Hank is now a Venture Capitalist and has some provocative observations about the effect of laws like the DMCA on start up companies. We also had a nice discussion of the possible legal woes of YouTube, but this was recorded before the Google acquisition. The next TWIL netcast, which we recorded last Friday, spotlights Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, and will feature discussion of the Google acquisition of YouTube since Mike was a source for the Wall St. Journal's pre-announcement scoop.
So tune in and send us your comments and criticisms. We're all about feedback, be it positive or negative. And if you have suggestions for topics or guests please send those along too.
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"Some people might consider all this "stay the course" and other Iraq war talk debatable. But, when you look at how this administration handled Katrina and the Gulf coast it becomes very clear how incompetent they are at governing and taking care of the real important issues. The issues at home. More than 750,000 people lost their homes. Many of them still have no relief and the billions spent on recovery was mostly sucked up by Halliburton and other middle companies that were not from the devastated areas. Small businesses that were ruined in the disaster areas have not received the relief they were promised. Why should Halliburton and other cozy companies, receive the lion's share of relief dollars? Why were people left stranded for days?"
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During this last week the Republicans launched a race-baiting ad in Tennessee. Republicans also used a recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision to scare voters away from supporting equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans.
If you thought they were already at the bottom, be prepared: the Republican attack machine will go lower next week.
The goal of these last minute Republican smears is to disgust voters with the whole system and drive down turnout. It's calculated, cynical and undemocratic. But all too often, it works.
The Republicans oppose an increase in the minimum wage. They don't want Congress to check or balance President Bush. And they are terrified of ethics reforms which could cut off their fat cat donors and expose their corruption. So expect the attacks to get worse over the next few days.