Author: Marie3

Getting lots of post-mortems on the seventy day Scott Walker campaign for President.  A major one seems to be at  Politico: Walker’s campaign manager unloads.  The opening paragraph is a decent summary of...

LA Times: All the ‘Happy Birthday’ song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules None of the companies that have collected royalties on the “Happy Birthday” song for the past 80 years held a...

No, it wasn’t a hijacking of a tractor-trailer loaded with $16 million worth of fruitcakes.  (Not exactly a product that’s easy to fence.)  Nor was it properly labeled a heist.  Thieves who steal with...

It is more interesting than the top line report that Clinton and Sanders are in a tie. Billmon does a great riff on this: So Hillary heads & associated pundits are already talking about Southern “firewalls” &...

One more thing that presidential candidates attempt to manufacture to differentiate themselves from their competitors.  My initial response to Trump’s –Make America Great Again — was that it was clunky,...