Comparison: . . . picture the campaign playlist as a kind of retail theft. Not the glamorous kind, not the ‘Ocean’s Eleven‘ kind, just the plain kind where someone strolls out with something small because they assume no one is going to stop them. That is how political campaigns sometimes treat music, like it is a communal resource, a public utility, a mood-setting spray bottle you can mist over the crowd. You want triumph, you want swagger, you want nostalgia, and you want th

Comparison: Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer.  . . . With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. On January 31, 2026, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery of the Western District of Texas ordered the immediate release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his

Comparison: Creators are the coal shovelers who have allowed YouTube to move so far so fast, except the railroads used to pay their boilermen a wage. Creators work for free . . . Time magazine writer Belinda Luscombe reaches in her comparison to 19th Century rail life to describe the importance of video creators to YouTube's wild success story of late. YouTube creators--especially the exceptionally successful ones--may not notice the unrewarded sweat. Time for a whistle-stop