Sample Snitching: How Online Fan Chatter Can Create Legal Trouble for Rap Producers
In summer 2020, I received an email from an independent rap label, promoting one of its new releases. It had a note attached about samples. “Do your best to refrain from mentioning them by name unless you know they’ve been…
I’m So Sorry to Tell You This, But Your Rogaine Could Kill Your Cat
Cat people such as myself will sacrifice anything for their pet. We give up fresh flowers (too many are toxic to cats), candles (the house will burn down when they get knocked over), and even a good night’s sleep (those…
A new Supreme Court case would force the government to create religious public schools
Religious public schools? The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear two cases that are likely to revolutionize the relationship between church and state, at least in the context of public schools. Both cases, known as Oklahoma Statewide…
Has anything gotten cheaper? We shopped at Walmart to find the answer
Are prices rising? Think back a year. Do you feel like anything in your supermarket cart has gotten cheaper? Overall, inflation has cooled for about two years in the United States. That means prices, generally, have been rising less. Some…
Quebec snowbirds fleeing Sunshine State in droves due to high costs, weak loonie
Many Quebec snowbirds living in Florida are listing their properties for sale, citing the high cost of living and a beneficial exchange rate due to the declining value of the Canadian dollar. Jasmin Gosselin has been escaping Quebec’s freezing temperatures for over…
Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life
What an astrophysicist might have the perspective to eulogize as “the incredibly improbable trip that we’re on” the rest of us might, and often do, experience as simply and maddeningly absurd — so uncontrollable and incomprehensible as to barely make…
Coalition of Jewish groups say they’re leaving X over Musk’s behavior
A coalition of U.S. and Canadian Jewish groups say they will leave X, the social media formerly known as Twitter, after seeing a rise in “toxic speech” on the platform and owner Elon Musk reposting antisemitic and xenophobic content. Why…