I haven’t really been following the FMD issue very closely, and because I don’t own a television I haven’t seen the on location footage either. Due to time constraints I’m still not focusing on this issue, but I have begun to notice some apparent logical disconnects. Adam Radwanski, in a March 16 article in Pundit […]
Monthly Archives: March 2001
Szasz on Government “School-Prisons”
18 March 2001 – 11:41 am
In a recent commentary for the L.A. Times Thomas Szasz, a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Suny in Syracuse, argues that government schools have become prisons established for the purpose of controlling their inmates rather than educating them. He is certainly not the only person making this point, and with many schools — attendance at […]
The Strange World of the Recording Industry
17 March 2001 – 11:45 pm
Wired News reports that the recording industry is discovering that the present copyright regime limits as well as empowers its ability to control the music business. It seems that the ineligibility of interactive online music services (i.e. webcasters) for less expensive, pre-determined compulsory licenses from music publishers are putting a damper on some record companies […]
Canadian Big Box Booksellers: The Series
Apparently, I’m not the only one who noticed the television like nature of the present saga of chain-store bookselling in Canada, or at least as it relates to the relationships of its two most prominent executives: Heather Reismen (formerly CEO of Indigo, now CEO and majority owner of Chapters, Inc.) and Larry Stevenson (former CEO […]