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Bomb away

Marc Ecko can have his graffiti party after all. Judge Jed Rakoff called New York's revocation of Marc Ecko's event permit a "flagrant violation of the First Amendment" in an opinion that showed a sense of humor that you don't see often in a judge:

"By the same token, presumably, a street performance of Hamlet would be tantamount to encouraging revenge murder," Rakoff wrote. "... As for a street performance of Oedipus Rex, don't even think about it."

Judge Rakoff agreed with me - and he did it without adding a "but."