Some Sunday morning reading to share.
Lawyer-POD. Be careful with those pods! Apple has unleashed the lawyers going after those who might violate their trademark on iPod, no matter how distinctly different the product in question may be from an iPod. Guess when you're under SEC scrutiny, you've got to potentially fill up the coffers with the proceeds of a few lawsuits just in case. Either that or justify all those lawyers.
Death of the Democrats. Lots of folks are proclaiming that Joe Lieberman's defeat marks the death of the democrats because the party will now have to run left. (Check out Charles Krauthammer). Give me a break. Give me a break. Both parties are deader than a door nail except as money making machines. If anyone thinks the Republican embrace of Lieberman has to do with how much they like him, and not their own (very successful) attempt to drive the Democrats further left, they can't spell ROVE. The only folks who didn't see it are the democrats who so willingly did Rove's bidding. I'm just going to ask this question. Fundamentally, how different is Joe Lieberman's position on the war than Hillary Clinton's?
Terror defeats tech in the skies. More proof both parties are dead. The five year anniversary of 9/11 is coming up. We've just had another potential terror attack. And we still can't admit that we can't stop it, but still spend money as fast as we can print it to put technology in airports like we can stop it. Ha! If we had the guts to do this, we'd pay security folks several hundreds of dollars a year as a salary, hire the best and the brightest for those jobs, instead of the system we have now. We'd spend the dough on the technology, no matter what. Face it, security has become another trough in the hog-pen, and we just don't take it seriously enough. Too many tax cuts to dole out.
Jeff Jarvis links to some interesting reading on the formation of a McCain-Lieberman ticket. As much as folks think these guys are any different, in my mind they are as much a part of the problem as anyone.
New security provisions sends the Bolshoi orchestra home by train. Remember when violin and cello cases designated mob hit-men?
The RIAA shows some compassion. Not. A target of an RIAA suit dies. The RIAA decides to give the family 60 days to grieve before continuing their predatory policies. I know these guys won't be happy until they change intellectual property laws to let copyrights last forever, but give me a break.
Not only do we have a war on terror, some think we should have a war on Google. Why do we celebrate business philosophies that focus on destroying the competition rather than creating something good? I know, that last question is hopelessly naive. Sorry.
And just for fun, Marc Orchant links to Colbert's On Notice Generator. Boy, can I think of a list for this one.
While you are watching out for terrorists, explosive liquids, and puffed up polemicists, you might want to watch out for fascist squirrels as well.
And finally, Bush is reading Camus' The Stranger on his vacation. Maybe Sarte's No Exit would be more appropriate.
