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...also how they will make people more aware of the East River, an urban waterway they more often treat as drive-over country. All of which I hope happens. But at the end of the day you can't evaluate a work of art in terms of its economic impact or its moral utility...
...analyzing bills after the fact is being able to influence debates beforehand. "The holy grail of this new movement is to develop the technology for collaborative analysis of bills online," says Rafael DeGennaro, a longtime congressional staffer and former president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. An example of the impact of legislative annotation took place as far back as a year ago, when conservative blogger N.Z. Bear posted a PDF version of the 2007 Senate Immigration Bill, helping opponents of the bill rally around particularly controversial details that might otherwise have escaped their attention. The text of the bill...
Michael Zhao has seen the damage firsthand. A journalist connected with the Asia Society, Zhao traveled to Guiyu - which processes up to 1 million tons of electronic garbage a year - to film a documentary on the impact of e-waste. "I saw people putting leftover parts on coal fired stoves, to melt down the waste to get to the gold," he says. "It'd produce a reddish smoke that was so strong I couldn't stand there for more than a couple minutes before my eyes would just burn." (Hear Zhao talk about the e-waste on this week...
...cases citing Lawrence have been decided in favor of gay-rights plaintiffs. Florida's ban on adoption by gay couples, for instance, has stood. But the impact of Lawrence v. Texas will likely only grow, say the lawyers involved in the arguments five years ago. "What Lawrence really means is that it is no longer enough to simply disapprove of conduct for the majority to make it a crime," says Paul Smith, the attorney who had argued before the court urging it to strike down the sodomy statutes...
Those views are changing, and fairly quickly. But the lasting impact of Lawrence will likely be that no matter what the majority of Americans think about gays in the future, lawmakers and courts alike will find it nearly impossible to justify criminal sanctions - just as Scalia warned. Of course, Scalia's wasn't the only one who spoke about gays that day. "The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. "Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives them...