It’s Thanksgiving: let us talk healthcare, government corruption, gift corruption, and oil tanker spills.

You should have plenty of time for this video today, and it will make for excellent table talk. I suggest raising issues in between main and dessert courses, where your audience is captive: fat and sated. They will want to get away, but hypoglycemia and tryptophan will give you a considered advantage. Bludgeon your relatives with high rhetoric! Impress them with academic zeal! Erase all doubt that your higher education was indeed pointed and necessary.

Later, regain their confidence by getting a third helping of pumpkin pie, or publicly farting.

Our man Lessig is rather well known for his work developing Creative Commons. Here’s a little gem of a powerpoint on sweeping topics from the difference between Blagovichian corruption and the kind we should really worry about.

Relevant here at the 18:20 mark where Lessig touches on the idea that Pharmaceutical gifting is ‘bribes that aren’t considered bribes.’”

Also catch the 22:44 mark where he discuss’ issues of institutional corruption and journalism.

For a stirring conclusion, fast forward to the 25:35 mark where Lessig draws a metaphor between the passive privileged and the co workers of a drunk captain driving a super tanker.