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June 2009
Michael Jackson May Have Left Paul McCartney Rights to 200 Beatles Songs in His Will →
clevelandleader.com
I’m very happy to hear this. I don’t want to be bashing Michael Jackson the day after he passed, but I must admit that his ownership of the Beatles catalogue always irritated me. I’m glad to hear that he made an effort to get the songs back to their rightful owner.
Iran Tries to Pacify Protesters With Lord Of The Rings Marathon →
current.com
Yeah there couldn’t be any kind of revolution-like allegory the Iranian people could pull from these films, perfect choice.
And In a Much Less Serious Note
Iron City Beer is Leaving Pittsburgh!?!
From The Wall Street Journal:
PITTSBURGH — The Steel City is losing its Iron City.
On Monday, the last batch of Iron City beer will be brewed at the nine-acre, red-brick brewery complex outside downtown Pittsburgh that was founded in 1861. Production will move 40 miles away to the Latrobe, Pa., brewery that once made another recently displaced regional favorite, Rolling Rock beer, now brewed in Newark, N.J.
The beer-making musical chairs reflects attempts by Iron City’s new owners to survive competition from global beverage companies and newer craft-beer makers.
So now Iron City will have that lovely Monongahala River after taste?
Whose Side Are We On? You Have to Ask?
An excerpt from Peggy Noonan’s latest column:
If the American president, for reasons of prudence, does not make a public statement of the government’s stand, he could certainly refer, as if it is an obvious fact because it is an obvious fact, to whom the American people are for. And that is the protesters on the street. If he were particularly striking in his comments about how Americans cannot help but love their brothers and sisters who stand for greater freedom and democracy in the world, all the better. The American people, after all, are not their government. Our sentiments are not controlled by the government, and this may be a timely moment to point that out, and remind the young of Iran, who are the future of Iran, that Americans are a future-siding people.
Read the whole article here. I highly recommend it.
