Just received an email from DrinkingintheMorning: “While doing research for our show, we stumbled on your blog. We feel we are kindred spirits. Not only did you do a blog post about drinking in the morning (the subject of our show) but you even mentioned one of our Drinks of the Day — guiness and chocolate cake donuts!”
I was chatting with my son tonight whilst reading Hucklebery Finn, when we came to the part where Huck and the slave Jim are trying to get to the Free States. My son mentioned that they could use the underground railroad.
It’s been a good day on Bloomberg, with yet another insightful piece.
Here is an example of what I write about frequently, copyright renewals that doom a book to obscurity, books that hardly anyone cares about for which the rights owner is not obvious but desperately need to be put online. The case in point is Methodology of the Social Sciences by Felix Kauffman, a member of the Mises Circle (the guy who wrote all the songs too). It was published in German in 1936 and English in 1944. Some family member renewed in 1971, thereby dooming it to an early grave.
The judge tacked on an $20 million following a comment from Microsoft’s attorney that the plaintiff was only seeking a TARP-like bailout for his failed business.
