Trademark Abuse

David K. Levine is a professor at UCLA and author of Against Intellectual Monopoly. This post, from Against Monopoly, along with the ensuing discussion, poses some questions:
Do trademarks represent an identity? What rights do we have to our identities, corporate and otherwise?
From AM:

As you may know I am much more favorably inclined towards trademarks, than [...]

Darwin Letter Friday

The collector bug strikes early.
At the age of twelve, in addition to being stinky, Charles Darwin reminds himself that if he is going to be a great naturalist, he’ll need a place for his stash.
That’s right, he’s building a fort.
In Summer, 1823, he says, the work must start!
January 12th, 1822–
remember next summer to make [...]

Amusing but sad.

Is anyone else floored by this?
At Ford, End of a Big-Vehicle Era Takes a Toll (NY Times)

Ford and GM are losing lots of money and generally making a mess of things, because they focused so much on pickup trucks and SUVs, which are both fairly worthless right now.
And all along, their foreign competitors, (even Ford [...]

It was only a matter of time…

The folks at Slate have been so kind as to put together a Venn Diagram of The crimes committed by the Bush Administration. Oh, where to start?

Though you can follow the chart well enough from here, I’d suggest you click on it for the interactive version. It fills one with a strange kind of righteous [...]

Andreas Daum on All Things Considered

Last week, Time turned to Andreas Daum to discuss Obama’s possible choice of the Brandenburg Gate as a speech location during his current tour abroad.

All Things Considered brought Daum on the air last night to discuss some of these same issues. There’s a lot involved here! Do Kennedy, Reagan and Obama face some of the [...]