In today’s installment of The David Lawrence Show, we talk about spam and John Perry Barlow’s recent run-in with the TSA’s bomb sniffing dogs, which apparently like the smell of magic mushrooms too. Only 25¢ for a whole hour of news and entertainment, for PayPal and BitPass users! And no, I don’t get a cut.

In this month’s column for eSecurityPlanet.com, I take a look at the first anniversary of the passage of the CAN-SPAM Act, and why I think it has been a big success for spammers.

Yesterday on the cable network Bravo, they re-ran an episode of The West Wing entitled “Gone Quiet.” In it, the President’s campaign director Bruno Gianelli (played by Ron Silver) argues that the campaign should begin running ads in key states to counteract an opposition leaflet campaign that brands President Bartlet as “Super Liberal.”
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Tonight I was on The David Lawrence Show talking about a new court decision in Maryland, invalidating a state spam law on Commerce Clause grounds. As usual, users of PayPal can sign up for BitPass and listen to the whole hour for only 25¢. What a bargain!

The moderate wing of the Democratic party, embodied by the Democratic Leadership Council, has begun trying to make sense of the 2004 elections. Some of the analysis is pretty laughable, but some is insightful.
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