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This is a post from 2009. In it, I complained about the blurring of license plates and brand names in commercial videos and television programs, presumably done at the behest of corporate lawyers anxious to avoid lawsuits. Since then it’s grown worse, to the point where non-commercial photographers and video producers — people like you […]
We’re all assholes in real life. Thank goodness some of us are capable of producing great art in spite of it.
… if losing a molar after 50-plus years of excellent dental health isn’t a sign things are beginning to wind down, I don’t know what is.
We’re home from our first road trip since the COVID pandemic began in February 2020.
It seems the Ayn Rand libertarians were right all along: if you drown government in a bathtub, private enterprise and the invisible hand of the market will step in to maintain order and public safety (insert sarcasm emoji here).
But hey, Joe Biden, you don’t need anyone’s approval to commute Reality Winner’s prison sentence, so how about it?