Wow. The city of Berkeley has passed a City Council item supporting the non-violent resistance of city schools and businesses to Marine Corps recruiting in the city limits. The city is, of course, being inundated with martial protesters, who are calling the item, issued in a time of war, "treasonous."
Most interesting, I think, is the comment by a councilmember who was a Vietnam enlistee: "We're not against the Marines per se," he said. "We're against this war. We're against the mechanisms that support this war and send our young people over there." Regardless of whether the item was a good idea or tactic, at least the council was intelligent enough to get a Vietnam vet on their side.
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Lookin' Good for Jesus. Enough said - look at the article.
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Apparently Yoko Ono is planning on suing a young artist who performs under the trademarked name "Lennon." Reportedly, the artist originally took all possible steps to make sure that she was doing this with the blessing of the estate, she has been careful throughout not to misrepresent herself as related to John, etc.etc. She has been performing for years, and only a few days before the statute of limitations, Yoko sent her a letter. Strangely enough, the letter was published both by her and by Julian Lennon, who thinks that his stepmother has gone far too far.
And why not add another copyright issue to the mix -- what do we do with the new doctrine that suggests publishing the letter may itself be a copyright violation?
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