Christopher Hitchens nerd factor was about zero.

is interesting advice coming from and MBA.

You're citing a California Supreme Court decision which, although it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, is not relevant in this case (see http://www.davelippman.com/LawoftheMall.html.) That decision is also irrelevant here because the artist's actions occurred inside the Apple store, not in the (possibly) public space outside the store.

Do you really believe that Apple's contract for displays with Samsung is week-to-week or even month-to-month? And even if Samsung could and did stop supplying Apple with LCDs, do you really believe they could quickly find enough buyers to purchase those LCDs at the same price in this economy?

And if I leave my phone behind when I walk to the corner coffee shop to do a little reading, what then?

And Random House, HarperCollins, etal. are what, chopped liver?

There's no reason carbon taxes couldn't be made revenue neutral by cutting taxes elsewhere. Tax the bads instead of the goods as Joseph Stiglitz says.

They aren't insuring the devices, they're refusing to recognize them as medical devices and thereby refusing to cover them.

...it probably takes almost a gallon of oil to get a gallon of oil out of the ground

Not even close. Currently it's in the neighborhood of 10-15:1. It will eventually approach 1:1, but when it does there'll be no point in pumping it out of the ground (for energy at least.)

My two cents says otherwise.

Did you bother to read TFA?:^) Here's its first sentence