From The Publishing Law Center, emphasis is mine:
Section 107 of the Copyright Act, entitled, “Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Fair Use,” is the statutory codification of the fair use doctrine. This judicially developed concept strives to balance the public’s need to know and be informed against authors’ incentives to create. The copyright law contemplates that fair […]

Today kind of sneaked up on me. I feel as though I should have something deep and moving to post in honor of a birthday, but you know…I just don’t.
Maybe that, in and of itself, says a lot. This year, my birthday just didn’t really seem like a particularly important event to me […]

My next door neighbor is a Christian. She’s the sort that makes me want to rename “what I am” (see today’s earlier post). She attends one of the large carnival-of-Jesus type evangelical churches in town (the slightly less charismatic one), and her social existance is almost entirely defined by her church group, not […]

…turned out a little differently than planned, but was still good.
The song for the day was Shawn Colvin’s Whole New You.
You have the right to get down on your kness
you have the right to make yourself believe
you don’t know my name
but I don’t care
you can do it
cuz you have the right
To shake the loneliness and […]

Yes, I’m talking about class, you know, like castes? Lots on my mind about this today, so I might as well blog it. Along with that, I might just add a category called “Snotty Bitch.”
More to come…

Thanks (again) to Margi.

My daughter hit nine months today, so we’ve been busy doing the doctor thing, and my thoughts have more been on her instead of the topics that fit here. Good lord, she is so freakin’ tiny!
While at the doctor’s office, my pediatrician noticed a “hip click” on Maya’s left side. We’re being referred […]

PLEASE. FTLOG, put on some bike shorts! Barring that, please have your spotter stand at the foot of the weight bench instead of the head while you do chest presses.

Would you please tell your creature the songbird that 3:15am oustide my window is *not* an appropriate time to start singing your praises?
Thanks.