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  • Steamboat Willie and Intellectual Property

    Steamboat Willie and Intellectual Property1

    You’ve likely already seen him freely used across the Internet over the last two days. As of 2024, Steamboat Willie, the cartoon which introduced Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain. This means that Steamboat Willie and its depictions of Mickey Mouse is fair game for any usage (I’d guess Disney likely will still try to

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  • Staying Sane in La-La Land

    Staying Sane in La-La Land0

    Madness abounds. At an Illinois shopping mall on December 6, a boy asked a masked Santa Claus for a Nerf gun for Christmas. That Jolly Old Elf sternly said no, no guns of any kind, and suggested other gifts like Legos, leaving the poor kid in tears. His mother admirably refrained from punching Santa in the

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  • Staying Sane in a Pandemic

    Staying Sane in a Pandemic0

    The Coronavirus Zombies are here. I just returned from Martin’s, our local grocery, where I saw many of my fellow Virginians, some of them masked, drifting around the store, picking over what remains of the canned goods, casting hopeful glances at the paper goods aisle – nope, still no TP – their eyes dull, mostly

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  • Stay Sane and Save the Republic

    Stay Sane and Save the Republic1

    I’ve marveled before about how statements of the past can read like today’s headlines, especially those like the following taken from the front flap of Martin L. Gross’ 1997 “The End of Sanity”: “At the University of Pennsylvania, separate dorms have been set up for minorities in the name of racial harmony….” “An apprehended mugger

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  • Stay Married, Even If You’re Unhappy

    Stay Married, Even If You’re Unhappy1

    “Stay married for the kids,” they say. That’s decent enough advice, but couples going through a tough time in their marriage should also know that they should stay together for themselves. Most of the time, a couple that sticks it out through a really rough patch in marriage will be happier in the long run

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  • Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data

    Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data0

    Statistician Leah Libresco said she used to be for gun control. Then she looked at the data. Writing at the Washington Post, the former newswriter for the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight explained her epiphany. “Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking

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