For today’s TunesDay, why don’t we forget about the music and talk about music lawyering? Because really, chicks dig the suits. Let’s start with my favorite assortment of anti-music fucknozzles, the RIAA. Up first, one of the industry group’s top hired guns wants to “intervene” in a probable cause hearing. Seems some kids at NC State aren’t terribly happy about
Read moreIn the past I’ve written about a variety of generational issues, and have often focused on the Millennials. At times I’ve been construed as dogging them pretty hard. As I’ve tried to explain, my criticisms of them (for being entitled, for lacking critical thinking skills, etc.) haven’t really been criticisms of them, per se – a cohort that’s 75-100 million
Read moreIt has been alleged that Scholars & Rogues is not, strictly speaking, a political blog. Sure, we write about overtly political issues and devote our share of time to things like media policy, energy and the environment, business and the economy, and international dynamics. Yes, we were credentialed to cover the DNC, but we don’t really do hard, insider, by
Read moreErrrmmm, we can do that? The full genome of the Neanderthal, an ancient human species probably driven to extinction by the first modern humans that entered Europe some 45,000 years ago, is expected to be recovered shortly. If the mammoth can be resurrected, the same would be technically possible for Neanderthals. In fact, Wade points out, there are good reasons
Read moreAbout three weeks ago, Jim Moss over at The Seminal laid the 2008 electoral results map over maps of poverty and income inequality. The visual comparison was illuminating, and Jim’s post got me to thinking – what if you did the same thing with a wider range of measures and rankings? What kind of picture would emerge? (Jim has himself
Read moreHappy Thanksgiving from all of us here at S&R. Today we invite those of you reading (and really, don’t you have anything better to do?) to tell us what you’re thankful about. I’ll go first. While I have much to be thankful for – a wonderful wife, the coolest dog alive, etc. – I find myself really appreciating the fact
Read moreAs one of my colleagues might put it: sweet fancy mouth-breathing Jesus! Ann Coulter’s Jaw Wired Shut By Brandon Barker Nov 25th 2008 11:40AM For the next few weeks, fans of Ann Coulter–anyone?–will have to rely on Lindsay Lohan to provide insensitive, backward-thinking sound bites. Because of a nasty fall last month, says the New York Post’s Page Six, the
Read moreA lot of bands have released pretty good debut records, only to follow them up with less-than-spectacular careers. The rule used to be (before the FCC, the recording industry and the radio industry conspired to destroy all music) that you learned what you needed to know about a band with its third album. Given how things worked, you often saw
Read moreFinally, FINALLY we’re starting to treat the RIAA like an organized crime syndicate. Check the latest on a RICO class-action in Missouri, via Slashdot: “In Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh, an RIAA case pending in St. Louis, Missouri, the defendant has asserted detailed counterclaims against the RIAA for federal RICO violations, fraud, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, prima
Read moreI hope you know The dBs. If not, let me open the door for you. Peter Holsapple, who became the primary creative force in the band after the departure of Chris Stamey, had a NYT blog piece the other day on the making of “Love is for Lovers,” one of those songs that ought to have been a monster hit.
Read morePart two of the Zero Coordinate and EccentricProduction Web documentary series on blogging and political media is now posted. Have a look.
Read moreIt started innocuously enough when one of my co-workers e-mailed us the other day to say that his wife had given birth to their second child, a cute little girl named “Brooklyn.” Cool, that – never heard Brooklyn as a name, and I kinda like it. (BTW, many congrats, Scott.) But this morning the storm clouds began to gather. Ashlee
Read moreSometimes it’s the small things that get the day off to a rollicking start. Like this, from the Denver Post. “The opportunity to run one of the state’s most prestigious research universities sounds pretty good to soon-to-be unemployed politicians like Sen. Wayne Allard and state Rep. Bernie Buescher. “ For those of you unfamiliar with the state of Colorado, we
Read moreFrom Yucaipa, CA: Authorities hope decals on trash cans will prevent baby dumping.
Read moreSeveral times in recent years I have said that while I’m certainly and unapologetically a progressive, I’m in no way, shape or form the kind of conventional “liberal” that a lot of people think I am. My views on a variety of issues simply don’t map onto our brain-dead, one-dimensional notion of “left” vs. “right,” and even the slightly more
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