I am thinking of my beautiful son and daughter this morning, the two I no longer see.
I spent eight years fighting the courts that granted my former wife a custody order, and in doing so took me from my kids.
Until custody is decided by a court, each parent has what is called “natural [...]
All through history, people have been living off things they stole from others. From the “great” Egyptian and Roman civilizations, that featured people living in splendor off the backs of slave labor, to the British Empire, that went around the world with its Navy and its weapons, subjugating and enslaving vulnerable indigenous people and looting [...]
New Yorker staff writer, Jane Mayer, stated on this week’s edition of On the Media (see “Motormanmark’s Best Free Podcasts,”) that, there have been “persistent rumors” that the Guantanamo photographs the Obama administration seeks to suppress may contain images of cruelty to children and sexual abuse of women in addition to images of torture.
The [...]
Intellectual property–a better term for which would be “idea property”–is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, promising to allow individuals to dominate what they create, what is a self-glorifyingly spiritual ideal, as if our physical reality can be left behind and we can accompany our ideas wherever they wander in the ether. Just as much, though, the concept seeks to ubiquitously chill and control what I do with what has come into my eyes and ears, what has become my human experience. The more media I engage, however passively, the more of an automaton I become–the more my experience is owned by another, the less of it that is mine to claim. An artist should crow against this, and if it weren’t for their dreams of hitting the idea lottery, maybe US artists would.
