Monday, February 26, 2024
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Friday, February 23, 2024
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The Man In Black
Last night, Johnny Cash appeared to me in a dream and told me that the person who gives the most memorable performance of a song has a natural right of ownership in that song. I asked him how that would affect the royalty rights of the songwriter. He said it wouldn’t: the natural right was a moral not an economic right. I said, “OK, but doesn’t that also imply that the natural right of the performer may change depending on the memorability of subsequent performances—that public taste plays an outsized role in the determination of that right?” He agreed with me that it would and then I woke up.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Wounded Knee
Let the mighty fall and their weapons of war perish. Let the rest of the world witness what the United States has become: a prematurely senescent empire, sponsor of genocide, racist, white Christian supremacist, a byword for vulgarity and violence.
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Monday, February 5, 2024
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
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