ACTION MOVIE VILLAINS FROM THE 1980S TO TODAY: They’ve got something in common.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO Lysander Spooner! More on this occasion here.

CHANGE: Repeal Passes By Much Larger Margin Than ObamaCare Did.

ED DRISCOLL: Ride The Michael Moore Recursion.

HOUSE VOTES TO REPEAL OBAMACARE: “The House voted on Wednesday to repeal the sweeping healthcare law enacted last year, as Republicans made good on a central campaign pledge and laid down the first major policy marker of their new majority. The party-line vote was 245-189, as three Democrats joined all 242 Republicans in supporting repeal.” Party-line vote? I think you mean bipartisan vote.

PROFESSOR JACOBSON OFFERS A PROGRESS REPORT on the media’s “Operation Demoralize.” “There is an insatiable mainstream media hunger to demonize and marginalize potential Republican nominees. Feeding that beast in the wake of the Tucson shooting is not the way to win in 2012.” Just remember that at this point in the prior election cycle, it looked like we were set for a Hillary Clinton / Rudy Giuliani slugfest.

TALKING CARS with the Car Lust guys.

THE NEW CIVILITY (CONT’D): Given the chance by CNN to “clarify” his comments regarding Republicans, Nazis and Goebbels, Congressman Steve Cohen stuck to his guns.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN WE’D SEE ENDLESS WAR AGAINST AN UNDEFEATABLE FOE. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! The War Against Palin Goes On and On and …

MORE ON THAT CALIFORNIA SUPERSTORM SCENARIO, including this: “The 1861 and 1862 storms show what is possible. The 19th century featured much more drastic disasters than the 20th. In my previous post about the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes (Mississppi river changed course), the 1815 Mount Tambora VEI 7 volcanic eruption, the 1859 solar Carrington event and other awesome displays of nature’s power I made the argument that if the 21st century features disasters more like the 19th century then we are in some some tough times. But I missed out on the California storms of the early 1860s. With nearly 40 million people now such a storm would do far greater damage. Picture a 300 mile long lake in the Central Valley and hurricane-force winds.”

Given all the human-made disasters of the 20th Century, I suppose we should be glad that it was a period of comparative calm in other ways, but I think it did produce a false impression of what constitutes “normal.”

Meanwhile, you may want to check out Bill Quick’s disaster-preparedness forum. And here’s a disaster-preparedness list.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestselling knives.

GETTING SMARTER by pumping iron.

PROGRESS WITH low-energy nuclear reactions? I really want this to work out, but I’m not holding my breath just yet. (Via Brian Wang).

IN TEXAS, now it’s Michael Williams talking about running for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison.

PIGFORD UPDATE: Another Farmer Says Rep. Sanford Bishop Didn’t Pursue Pigford Fraud Allegations.

More here.

IS THE SINGULARITY the biggest threat to humanity’s continued existence? Do not rage against the machine. Embrace the machine.

REASON TV: Jeb Bush on Disrupting the Education Monopoly.

COOKING CANCER CELLS with hot gold nanoparticles.

FOLLOWING UP ON TODAY’S HATE RHETORIC: The Hill: Democratic lawmaker compares GOP health law claims to Nazi ‘lies’. “Cohen’s remarks, first caught by ABC News, come amid heightened sensitivity to political rhetoric following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).” Apparently, not that heightened. This whole “new civility” thing seems to be kind of a bust. . . .

INCIVILITY AT THE WASHINGTON POST: Reader Joe Jackson notes Chris Cilizza’s “dangerously inflammable rhetoric:”

* Rep. Ben Chandler (D-Ky.): Chandler also voted against the bill originally, surviving by the narrowest of margins in 2010. And he figures to be targeted again in 2012. Republicans have already jumped on his vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker, and a vote against repeal could throw fuel on the fire.

“Targeted?” “Fuel on the fire?” I thought our pundits were going to eschew such language, which might be interpreted by crazy people somewhere as a call for violence. For shame.

THE “NEW CIVILITY:” A CYNICAL LIE? D.C. Anti-Walmart Protesters March on Developer’s Home with “Target” Flyer. It’s Thursday at 7:30.

TESLA MODEL S HITS THE ROAD. Also, Volvo is crash-testing electric cars.

IN THE WASHINGTON POST, a review of O: A Presidential Novel.

THOUGHTS ON BANKRUPTCY FOR STATES.

CONGRESS: U.S. Rep. David Wu loses staffers, political team amid complaints of public behavior. “Since the November election, U.S. Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., has lost at least six staffers plus the leadership of a veteran campaign team that guided him to a seventh term amid complaints about his public behavior. . . . The staff departures come amid questions about Wu’s behavior during the campaign. On Oct. 27, he gave a speech so negative and loud that a Washington County Democratic Party member complained formally to his office. The outburst was followed two days later by an episode at Portland International Airport, where Wu used his influence as a member of Congress to enter a restricted area and campaign for votes from off-loading passengers. One passenger filed a complaint, and a Transportation Security Administration employee was later required to be retrained for his lapse in letting Wu past security.” Following the rules is for the little people.

UPDATE: Actually, reading the story it sounds like he’s undergone some sort of personality change. Could that be true? Is he really just a shadow of the man that we once knew?

THE NEW CIVILITY: House Democrat Compares GOP To Nazis In Health Repeal Debate.

RAYMOND IBRAHIM ON the Washington Post’s Islamophobia.

ADVICE TO WRITERS: Go John Galt?

REPORT: Men have upper hand in sexual economy. Maybe that’s what has Natasha Vargas-Cooper so unhappy.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY settles religious-discrimination lawsuit brought by Christian astronomer. I had an earlier post on this case here. It seems that this is a black eye for the Kentucky biology department, too. And a note to P.Z. Myers — nobody was saying the world was flat. This guy’s not even a young-earth creationist. He just thinks the Big Bang might have been divinely inspired. At any rate, applying “collegiality” to beliefs on religion is a dangerous business, as a few moments’ reflection might suggest.

UPDATE: Reader Matthias Shapiro offers a sort-of-defense for the university:

It seems that the researchers at University of Kentucky weren’t even really that concerned about Mr. Gaskell’s Christian worldview. (Incidentally, Gaskell’s views are actually pretty mainstream. I’ll bet he and Francis Collins – a Christian geneticist appointed by President Obama as director of the NIH and author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief- would probably have a grand old time talking science and religion.) Their biggest concern was that the media wouldn’t be able to understand the subtleties of Mr. Gaskell’s line of argumentation and would interpret any discussion about evolution coming from a Christian as “creationism”. These idiots looked at Gaskell’s views, and imagined that the media wouldn’t be able to comprehend a calm, intelligent discussion about science and religion.

Where ever would they have gotten that idea?

Where, indeed?

TEXAS: Ted Cruz running for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s seat.

CHANGE: Housing Starts in U.S. Decreased in December to One-Year Low. Unexpectedly! “Builders began work on fewer homes than projected in December, a sign the industry that triggered the recession continued to struggle more than a year into the U.S. economic recovery.”

L.A. TIMES: What gives? First, approval of Congress jumps; Now, Americans like Republican John Boehner more.

IN THE MAIL: From Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics 4th Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy.

I BLAME SHEILA JACKSON LEE FOR THE CLIMATE OF HATE: The New Civility: Democrat Says Repealing ObamaCare is ‘Killing Americans.’

ANOTHER RUBE SELF-IDENTIFIES: Glenn Greenwald: It’s like Bush-Cheney all over, but worse! So much for the fierce moral urgency of change!

IOWAHAWK: CSI: Tucson.

WHAT CONGRESS should cut.

CLARICE FELDMAN: “Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, B.A. Yale. J.D. University of Virginia, may not be the dumbest member of Congress, but it would be hard to defend her from such a characterization.” Once you recognize, that “unconstitutional” is merely a synonym for “things I don’t like,” it all makes sense.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE on the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on the IPO market.

SAFETY: $100 Bribe Gets Unknown Package Placed On Airplane.

SOMEBODY TELL TIM GEITHNER: At Amazon, markdowns on TurboTax.

PROTEST: University of Colorado Student Pays Tuition With $1 Bills.

MARTIN LUTHER KING AND HIS GUNS:

Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters take turns guarding his home and family. He had good reason to fear that the Klan in Alabama was targeting him for assassination.

William Worthy, a journalist who covered the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, reported that once, during a visit to King’s parsonage, he went to sit down on an armchair in the living room and, to his surprise, almost sat on a loaded gun. Glenn Smiley, an adviser to King, described King’s home as “an arsenal.”

As I found researching my new book, Gunfight, in 1956, after King’s house was bombed, King applied for a concealed carry permit in Alabama. The local police had discretion to determine who was a suitable person to carry firearms. King, a clergyman whose life was threatened daily, surely met the requirements of the law, but he was rejected nevertheless. At the time, the police used any wiggle room in the law to discriminate against African Americans.

Give the authorities discretion, and it will be abused.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Three issues Obama should raise with Hu – but probably won’t.

UBIQUITOUS VIDEO: Today only, Panasonic HD video recorder for $69. These kinds of portable videocams played a key role in beating back bogus racism charges against Tea Party protesters. I suspect they’ll play an even bigger role in the next couple of years.

BYRON YORK: Before banning ‘crosshairs,’ CNN used it to refer to Palin, Bachmann. I blame the network for creating a climate of hatred and violence. There’s blood on your hands, CNN!

Well, there’s some sort of bodily substance involved, anyway.

CHANGE: Obama’s SEC hires Goldman Sachs asset manager to regulate asset managers.

CIVILITY CAMPAIGN NOT CATCHING ON: “Cheney’s heart transplant. Wouldn’t that be the worst day ever? Not only are you dead but they’ve given your heart to THAT prick!”

Plus, from the comments: “Obama ends up adopting half these policies in his continuance of his war on terror. And yet, whereas these policies made Cheney Darth Vader and the Emperor rolled into one, under Obama these policies are not even worth mentioning.” That Obama adopted them too only makes Cheney more evil — for undermining the fierce moral urgency of change. And then mocking The One for going along.

INVESTIGATING THE INVESTIGATORS: Darrell Issa Investigates the GAO over its for-profit schools shenanigans. Fawn Johnson of the National Journal, however, seems rather non-neutral in her description of what’s going on. “Counteracting the ad hype?” Easy to see who’s side she’s on.

Here’s some background on what went on, which involved more than mere “revisions.”

MEGAN MCARDLE: Where Are All The Sick People Who Can’t Get Insurance?

Approximately 300 million Americans face a serious risk of being killed in an auto accident. Which is to say, there are auto accidents, and the entire population of the country is at risk of being one of the thousands of people every year who are killed on our nation’s highways.

That statement is about as useful as a new report from HHS, presumably timed to undercut the GOP as they debate their fruitless attempt to repeal the health care bill. HHS says that millions of people–about half the country, in fact–either has, or has a loved one with, a condition that could cause them to have difficulty securing insurance.

As with the catchy opening sentence on auto deaths, this turns out to be much less interesting when you examine it. I don’t really want to know who could be conceivably affected by a problem–after all, even someone with no medical conditions now could presumably develop one. What I want to know is, how many people this problem affects.

Shockingly, not nearly as many as you’re meant to think. “I’m not saying that they don’t exist, but if they do, we should really be trying to find them. We’re not talking about a program that isn’t serving quite as many people as expected. We’re talking about a program that was supposed to serve almost 400,000 people, and is instead serving around 2% of that number. Nor have these people been turned away due to budget constraints; they don’t seem to have applied in the first place.”

JENNIFER RUBIN: The Tale Of Two Retirements. Kay Bailey Hutchison vs. Kent Conrad.

CHANGE: All-Seeing Blimp Could Be Afghanistan’s Biggest Brain.

TRIGGER HIPPIE: Jared Loughner: Reefer Madness?

HARPER’S divided by union fight. “The Harper’s union has been locked in a bitter dispute with MacArthur since July. And now he’s trying to lay off Harper’s’ literary editor, Ben Metcalf, who’s worked at the magazine since the mid-nineties and who played a key role in the union drive — a move the union says is pure retaliation. The current crisis began a year ago, when MacArthur fired the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Roger Hodge. The two men had once been close, but their relationship had frayed as the red ink mounted: Newsstand sales dropped, MacArthur’s appetite for losses waned, and Hodge tried to defend the staff from cuts.” Plus, bashing the Internet.

THEY’RE COLLECTING SIGNATURES to recall Sheriff Dupnik. To correct the record, however, I didn’t actually call for Dupnik’s recall in this post, which merely linked an item about the possibility. That said, I’m okay with the idea.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on cordless power tools.

THE ANGER IS PLENTIFUL, the generosity not so much.

PERSPECTIVELESS DOPES: It’s come to this: CNN apologizes … after guest uses “crosshairs” metaphor.

Am I hallucinating or didn’t this same network once have an entire show devoted to heated political debate called … “Crossfire”? With a crosshairs logo? How did the republic survive while it was on the air?

And in six weeks, they’ll be doing that sort of thing again as if this moment had never occurred.

UPDATE: Reader Steven Jens writes: “Did CNN ever apologize for Anderson Cooper’s use of the term ‘teabagger’?”

ANOTHER UPDATE: CNN didn’t apologize, but Anderson Cooper did.

MORE: Don Surber is not buying it.

MORE STILL: John Nolte writes:

CNN apologizing for a guest using the word crosshairs is more devious than hypcritical.

Its a way for them to keep the focus on Palin, to insinuate without outright saying so that “crosshairs” and therefore Palin was wrong.

“We weren’t criticizing Palin, we were criticizing ourselves.”

But in doing so… Devious.

Good point. And another viewer emails: “By the way, both viewers accepted John King’s apology.” Which is big of ‘em, since they were both right-leaning bloggers looking for something to snark about.

JAMES TARANTO: Leave Kate Zernike Alone: She is a good reporter. The New York Times is a corrupt institution. “How corrupt? So corrupt that the Hulse-Zernike piece was, by the standards of the Times last week, a relatively minor case of journalistic malpractice. Even the editors who assigned it at least have the excuse of having been under deadline pressure at a time when the facts were not yet in about the suspect’s motives. The same cannot be said for the Times editorial board and Paul Krugman, who on Jan. 10, as we noted last Tuesday, were still linking the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to ‘uncivil rhetoric’ from the right, even after the facts had disproved any connection. The Times has made no acknowledgment yet of this gross journalistic wrong.”

Plus this: “The moral degeneration of the New York Times is a study in the corrupting effects of power. Over the years, the men who run the paper came to view the preservation of their authority as agenda-setter or gatekeeper or ‘mediator’ as their primary mission. On Jan. 10, 2011, they made it clear that they are willing to go so far in the pursuit of that goal as to contravene the real purpose of journalism, which is to tell the truth.”

UPDATE: Reader Stephen Clark writes: “Taranto’s justification for calling the Times a corrupt institution could be applied more broadly to include a disagreeably large portion of Codevilla’s Ruling Class. An intuitive recognition of this as fact has no doubt motivated many, if not all, in the Tea Party movement.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Eric Pobirs emails: “What moral degeneration? This is the paper that gave us the Walter Duranty view of the Soviet Union. They arguably have an ocean of blood on their hands but point the finger at conservatives?”

THE WORLD’S STRANGEST MOVIE SETS.

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

REASON TV: The Week in Stupid: Cable Pundits on the Giffords Shooting.

GLENN GREENWALD IS APPALLED AT OBAMA’S CHENEYESQUE STANCE ON THE WAR ON TERROR, and Tom Maguire is gloating. I told you that all that fierce moral urgency of change crap was. . . well, crap. And I was right!

REUSING PAST EXAM QUESTIONS LEADS TO TROUBLE. I would hesitate to say “too lazy” here, though — writing multiple-choice questions for exams is hard, and you have to write a lot of them, and it’s easy to write one that’s more ambiguous than it seems to the writer. (That’s one reason why I don’t use them; another is that the actual practice of law doesn’t involve many multiple-choice questions.) But I was warned very early in my career that reusing exam questions often leads to trouble, and the growth of the Internet only makes that problem worse.

Ilya Somin has further thoughts.

A PROBLEM WITH SENILE FEDERAL JUDGES? I’m prepared to believe it’s a problem. I just note that it’s a problem we seem to hear about more often when there’s a Democratic President . . . .

IN SEARCH OF the Year Zero Face. Well, given that we prize women for sex rather than childbearing nowadays, maybe it makes sense that women want to look at what’s supposed to be their sexual, rather than reproductive, peak — age 36!

WOULD YOU BUY YOUR NEPHEW AN EASY-BAKE OVEN? No. With the incandescent ban coming, it would be cruel to get him hooked on 100-watt bulbs.

A NICE CHART FROM THE ECONOMIST: U.S. Equivalents: Comparing other nations with U.S. states.

REPORT: Joe Lieberman won’t run in 2012.

LOW-COST RECIPES at the Hillbilly Housewife blog.

ED KOCH ON CIVILITY: Palin Holds High Ground Over Harsh and Unfair Critics. “Why do I defend Palin in this case? I don’t agree with her political philosophy: She is an arch conservative. I am a liberal with sanity. I know that I am setting myself up for attack when I ask, why did Emile Zola defend Dreyfus? Palin is no Dreyfus and I am certainly no Zola. But all of us have an obligation, particularly those in politics and public office, to denounce, when we can, the perpetrators of horrendous libels and stand up for those falsely charged. We should denounce unfair, false and wicked charges not only when they are made against ourselves, our friends or our political party but against those with whom we disagree. If we are to truly change the poisonous political atmosphere that we all complain of, including those who create it, we should speak up for fairness when we can.”

DAN MITCHELL: The IRS Run Amok.

NOW THEY TELL US: Why Green Energy Can’t Power A Job Engine.

REDUCING POST-WORKOUT SORENESS with ginger.

UPDATE: Reader Donald Gately writes: “I always preferred Mary-Ann, but I’ll try anything for health.”

FUTUREPUNDIT ASKS: If the U.S. Government is really exploiting a crashed alien spaceship, why aren’t we seeing more technical progress? And flying cars, dammit!

UAW THREATENS TO CALL NON-UNION AUTO COMPANIES HUMAN-RIGHTS VIOLATORS. Well, fortunately, with the UAW holding stakes in their competitors, and with the U.S. government having invested in their competitors, the “transplant” car factories can expect an equally fair shake from both the union and the U.S. government!

SLAPPED IN THE FACE WITH A FISH. “The author does not present herself as controlling or magisterial; she gives her authorities space and then she gets out of the way. Her performance mimes the book’s lesson: rather than acting as a central authority, she lets individual voices speak for themselves.” This is an approach that I find congenial.

THE TERMINATOR SCENARIO: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?

JOHN TIERNEY ON why people can handle the truth regarding their own DNA.

TRASH-TALKING: Nissan’s Tavares to GM: Electric cars don’t have tailpipes.

ANOTHER SCALP FOR THE TEA PARTY: Kent Conrad to retire. “Unlike Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s retirement announcement last week, Conrad’s announcement sets up a strong possibility of a flip from D to R. Republicans crushed Democrats in the state’s 2010 elections.”

IN THE MAIL: From Michael Wade, All I Said Was…: What Every Supervisor, Employee, and Team Should Know to Avoid Insults, Lawsuits, and the Six O’Clock News.

POINTS AND FIGURES ON TALK OF CHINESE CURRENCY MANIPULATION: “The Senate did more to wreck the American dream in the past two years than China has. I think they call that shooting yourself in the foot.”

AS WE MOVE TOWARD THE BRITISH MODEL, THE BRITISH MOVE AWAY: UK Government Plans Major Health Care Reform. “The British leader, whose Conservative Party heads the country’s coalition government, said he would save money and cut red tape by giving control over management to family practitioners rather than bureaucrats, and allow private companies, charities and social enterprises to bid for contracts within the public health service.” Is there a lesson here?

ETHANOL: Cartooned.

A WAVE OF MURDERS in a state the Brady Campaign calls safe because of strict gun laws. “Safe?” I do not think this word means what you think it means. But this kind of — all-too-common — pattern is probably why U.S. attitudes on gun control haven’t gotten any more favorable since the Tucson shooting.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Next American Upgrade.

PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: The Obama Administration, Richard Holbrooke, and AfPak Policy Chaos. “My respect for the late Richard Holbrooke notwithstanding, I certainly don’t think that his work and judgments on AfPak policy have been infallible. In fact, at one point, I actually called for him to resign. But perhaps I might have reconsidered my call, if I had known that from the outset, despite his supposedly special position in the State Department, and despite the importance of getting AfPak policy right, Richard Holbrooke received little support from the Obama White House in his endeavors.”

AT AMAZON, Top Deals In Electronics.

WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT’D): States warned of $2,500bn pensions shortfall. “US public pensions face a shortfall of $2,500bn that will force state and local governments to sell assets and make deep cuts to services, according to the former chairman of New Jersey’s pension fund.”

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Three Facts The House GOP Can’t Ignore.

THE RECLUSIVE LEFTIST on last week’s burst of lefty hatred.

So is this what we do now? Is this the program? Fifty years later, we just make it be about whatever we want it to be about? (Mr. Derrida, white courtesy phone. White courtesy phone, Mr. Derrida.)

Ironically, people will accuse me of having an ulterior motive for even saying this. So you’re defending right-wing hatred? So you’re arguing that the left is just as bad? Blah blah blah. Actually, here’s my ulterior motive: truth. I like truth. I like facts. I like knowing what really happened.

How delightfully old-fashioned. (Via DaTechGuy, who has further thoughts.)

ZEITGEIST UPDATE: Tucson Shooter Obsessed With Bizarre Internet Movie. Wait, not a Glenn Beck follower?

Related: Leftist threatener-of-Tea Partiers Eric Fuller has history of unhinged behavior.

SO THE WASHINGTON POST’S “ON FAITH BLOG” ASKED WILLIS ELLIOTT TO ANSWER A QUESTION ABOUT ISLAM, but when they read the answer, they spiked it. It’s now published over at Pajamas Media.

USA TODAY EDITORIALIZES: Lavish Public Pensions Add To State Budget Woes. “Add to” is putting it mildly in some cases.

DICK CHENEY: Obama Has Figured Out That We Were Right:

President Obama has “learned from experience” that some of the Bush administration’s decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, according to former Vice President Dick Cheney.

In his first interview since undergoing major heart surgery last July, Cheney said he thinks Obama has been forced to rethink some of his national security positions now that he sits in the Oval Office.

“I think he’s learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. So I think he’s learned from experience. And part of that experience was the Democrats having a terrible showing last election.”

Cheney also asserted that Obama has learned that the prison at Guantanamo Bay simply cannot be closed, despite the promises he made while campaigning for the White House.

“I think he’s learned that he’s not going to be able to close Guantanamo,” Cheney said. “That it’s — if you didn’t have it, you’d have to create one like that. You’ve got to have some place to put terrorists who are combatants who are bound and determined to try to kill Americans.”

They told me if I voted for John McCain, we’d wind up with a President following Cheney-approved policies in the War On Terror. And they were right!

100 REASONS NOT TO GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOL, NO. 43: Attitudes About Graduate School Are Changing.

Mostly, I’d say don’t go heavy into debt.

JUST A THOUGHT: So if the Republicans are demanding concessions in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, here’s something to add: A rule suspending Congressional salary increases so long as the national debt is above the current ceiling. (Or even decreasing salaries by 3% a year while it’s above the ceiling). This will be politically difficult to oppose, and it might even concentrate members’ minds on cutting spending.

IF YOU’RE GOING TO SEND A DUMB LEGAL THREAT, don’t send it to Cory Doctorow.