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A solution for copyright law

Perhaps it’s the beer and cheese talking, but something just came to me as we were talking about copyright law at Christine’s party. Disney keeps getting copyright extended every time it looks like Mickey Mouse is under threat of falling into the public domain. Right now copyright expires 75 years after the death of the […]

Vocabulary

A list of words and historical/cultural figures I learned from reading comics when I was a kid.

Rolling Bums in the Spirit of Giuliani

I mean, Harlem’s residents don’t need their kids spending unwarranted nights in jail. Harlem’s residents don’t need any more police harrassment, generally. But the buildings west of Frederick Douglass are gentrifying…

Keep Your IP Laws Off My Body

Happy Black History Month?

Grover in Literature

I never heard the writers on Sesame Street refer to Grover as a teacher of postmodern ideas, but maybe they were working under that assumption subconsciously.