Editorial: Justice Denied Due to Judges’ Stock Ownership

Can I tell you that I'm really upset by the abusive actions of the California Supreme Court? "For years, Braxton Berkley was exposed to chemicals while helping build top-secret military planes at Lockheed Martin's storied Skunk Works plant. He says those chemicals made him ill - but his case … [Read more...]

Want To Get Famous? Mount a Guerrilla Attack on Gizmodo!

Now's your chance to get famous in the blogosphere and possibly beyond if you've been working on that one without success. Whatever you think about Gizmodo's pranks at CES, there's a lot of attention right now on a crew who's only used to dealing with oddball programmers who got lucky, tech … [Read more...]

Fantasy Land: Music Industry Crashes, Music Gets Better!

Seriously, I hate to be rude, but Slumping Record Sales Good for Real Hip Hop Artists?  That's crazy talk! According to Charles Jones:"This current recession in the hip hop economy will be a good thing if it runs off all the rappers and potential moguls who only got into the game for the … [Read more...]

A Note to Survivors of Abuse

While the Chris Stokes/B2K media circus plays out, you'll have to listen to a lot of nonsense from fools who think they know something about the subject or who just want to share their "common sense."  Some of them don't actually mean to be hurtful but I know that doesn't change the … [Read more...]

Should Artists Focus on Making Art?

The swift chancellor report offers an interesting take on the widespread assumption that rappers can and maybe should be full-time businessmen as well as artists. After invoking the relationship of Busta Rhymes and Chris Lighty: Often times the spirit of entreneurship breeds self reliance which … [Read more...]