My friend Michael Dorsey has a good story on his blog for June 29th about the U.S. Attorney’s insane charges against artist Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble. They started with bioterrorism and whittled the indictment down to something they thought might actually stand, petty larceny. But the crime the artist actually committed was an excess of free expression. Check out the Critical Art Ensemble’s amazing Medical Guide to Diseases of Consciousness (including “Premature Conceptual Secretions,” which may have bearing on the authorities prosecuting this case).