Copyright and Birthday Cakes

Dues to threats of copyright infringement lawsuits, this bakery now refuses to customize birthday cakes with the kids’ beloved images, e.g. if a kid wants a Nemo cake, too bad. After all, how dare that little hooligan punk kid want to “steal” the “property” of Disney et al.? What right does he have to have an orange fish on his cake? The Bill of Rights does not say anything at all about a right-to-put-an-orange-Nemo-resembling-fish-on-a-birthday-cake. Does it?

Batman: A Review

This is the best Batman movie yet. Christian Bale, living up to the promise of his performances in American Psycho and Equilibrium, is the best Batman, hands down. Bale’s Batman is dark, dangerous, disturbed, dehumanized and vengeful—as he was meant to be. As Batman, his voice takes on a guttural, animalistic quality. The new menacing-looking, tank-like, car-crunching, building-smashing Batmobile is a better reflection of Batman’s spiritual being than the sleek Batmobile of earlier movies.

We Want to Protect You from Wal-Mart

A weblog titled “The Neighborhood Retail Alliance“ offers what it calls the “Conservative Case Against Wal-Mart in NYC“, an economic study for the case against Wal-Mart, which being served from a small business alliance, should make the reader question the inherent bias and accuracy in which they present the issues The “study” engages in the trade-deficit fallacy when discussing how the dollars are exported and