Man, has the world changed. Thank God I’m coming along at the tail end of the Baby Boomer generation (1958), which has pushed age category definitions beyond anything conceived since Methusela. “Middle age” now starts after 40, “late middle age” now extends into the 60s, “old age” isn’t even recognized, …

For a bizarre deranged blood-drinking psycho-bitch, Angelina Jolie is pretty hot.

I am opposed to Dennis Kucinich essentially across the board: he is anti-war, anti-free trade, anti-business, anti-technology, he was anti-choice until this presidential campaign began, his track record as an administrator couldn’t be much worse – as mayor he plunged Cleveland into bankruptcy. And his voice is very annoying. However, …

Our super good bud and ace Blogcritics contributor Ed Driscoll is the new Radio Free Blogcritics artist. Ed Driscoll has been playing guitar for over twenty years. Inspired by Pete Townshend, in the mid-1980s, he began to “write” his own compositions using a four-track cassette recorder, a drum machine and …

Very clever scheme from Robert X. Cringely to legally subvert the current music distribution model – he calls it “Snapster”: First the law. Snapster is built on the legal concept of Fair Use, which allows people who purchase records, tapes, and CDs to make copies for backup and for moving …

Paul McCartney joins PETA in complaining about KFC’s treatment of chickens – they kill them: An open letter from McCartney to David Novak, chairman and chief executive officer of KFC’s Louisville-based parent company, Yum! Brands Inc., was to appear in a full-page advertisement in Thursday’s edition of The Courier-Journal. McCartney, …

Contradicting the RIAA’s claims that they can only track down individual file sharers via their Internet Providers (see Verizon case), the AP was able to track down a number of the targets of federal subpoenas the RIAA has been churning out: Parents, roommates — even grandparents — are being targeted …

File sharing services are making efforts to hide user identities in the wake of the RIAA sue-the-world campaign: the makers of file-sharing software are fortifying their programs to try to mask users’ identities. Some of the upgrades reroute Internet connections through so-called proxy servers that scrub away cybertracks. Others incorporate …

Dan Gillmor on the RespectCopyrights.org campaign: a campaign (also including TV commercials and in-theater pitches) aimed at convincing us all of a single point — that it’s wrong to infringe on copyrights. Well, of course it is, especially when the purpose is to get something of value for nothing or …

In what has turned into an illuminating series of posts and comments on Public Enemy, Elvis (P and C), race (naturally), and other related topics, I brought up the issue of black anger as reflected in the music of PE (see comment #6 on this post). I said such anger …