In the beginning, there was kos. Kos created his blog. And he beheld it, and said that it was good. But eventually kos needed a vacation - and since the blogosphere knows no sabbath, or at any rate likes to chatter all day Sunday, he asked a guy named Larry Lessig to fill in for him.
Lessig is more than just an early frontpager. He's been an advocate for the principles that make communities like ours work intelligent and effective enough that you could call him the Thomas Jefferson of the netroots (or, with Wired magazine, "the Elvis of cyberlaw"). A Stanford law professor and prominent supporter of Barack Obama, he has been a champion of net neutrality, freedom of speech on the internet, technologically savvy copyright reform and, most recently, governmental ethics reform. His ideas on this remind me of my own political hero, Russ Feingold.
Lessig is considering a run for Congress in CA-12, but since there will be a Democratic primary, the party won't help him yet. Only we can. And he needs to hear from us before March 1. Will you help?
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