No, it's not cable coverage of the NBA playoffs, it's me marveling at our conflicted culture. According to NYT, video from a swarm of grassroots documentarians is "undercutting the prosecution of most of the people arrested" during last year's RNC protests. In one case, prosecutors dropped charges once it was revealed that the police video used in evidence had had exculpatory segments "cut by mistake." So there's an example of the truth becoming clearer thanks to more eyes showing more sides of a story. Many more links on this from Emily Gertz on the very cool group blog, worldchanging.com. Meanwhile, in America, a group called Dominionists are thumping, and, more importantly, stumping, to install their own version of the truth in as many statehouses, courthouses and White Houses as they can lay hands upon. Read scary article in opposition enclave Rolling Stone. As previously stated, I believe the U.S. is…

I thought The Gates inspired more thought than I'd thought they'd inspire. What did you think?

Had the mixed honor of talking about ACLU Couch Parties yesterday with Foster Braun, live on Detroit's WJR talk radio. Mixed because I was excited to talk about the project - asking people to get together, watch cable, and write to Congress about the looming expansion of indecency regulations - but was ambivalent about a by-fire intro to live call-in radio. Fortunately, I didn't psych myself out in advance by reviewing the daily lineup at WJR, which includes Sean Hannity, Dr. Laura, Paul Harvey and, best of all, the Midnight Trucking Network from 1 to 5. Foster Braun was pretty fair. It sounds like he thinks that "smut" is bad and the government helping keep it away from our kids wouldn't be such a bad thing. But it also sounds like he knows the difference between civil liberty and irresponsibility, and between censorship and sensible regulation. I was confused by…