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Copyright lawsuits can be difficult and take time. Just ask George Harrison. The lawsuit against him for “subconsciously” plagiarizing the song “He’s So Fine” in writing “My Sweet Lord” dragged on from 1971 to 1998. Some copyright lawsuits don’t take quite so long – and can produce even sadder results. In 1997, Bob Craft, who […] To Scots, bagpipes aren’t just a musical instrument. They also have political symbolism. So political, in fact, they’ve been considered a war weapon. Treating bagpipes as weaponry stems back to the last and most famous of the Jacobite Risings, which sought to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of England. In 1745, Charles […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez America is ending (“The fights over masks and vaccinations for Covid-19 is an overwhelming measure of intellectual and moral deterioration of the country.”) The Largest Autocracy on Earth (“The freedom to destroy yourself is one thing. The freedom to destroy democratic society is quite another.”) Nonbookish Linkage A professor’s […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings (“American society lacks the language to describe itself, and as a result it is incapable of diagnosing and rectifying its own destruction.”) Headline of the Week The Trump Presidency Is Still An Active Crime Scene Nonbookish Linkage A brief […] |
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