In Defense of Hardworking Songwriters and Musicians
A short essay appearing in the Music Industry Arts monthly newsletter “Bandwidth”
Recently, an article titled “In Defense of Downloading” by one Matthew Dusenbury found it’s way to my email inbox. The short essay features a curious moral circumvention of intellectual property rights, major record label’s shortcomings since the inception of our beloved Internet, and a dramatic betrayal of fan trust. The proposed course of action was indeed a scandalous one: download music illegally! As evidenced by this article’s very existence, our young technology laureate’s views are not what you would call congruent with my own.
Stop Playing With Our Food: A Look at the Food Industry and Food Science
A term paper for a Popular Culture Course at Fanshawe College
There is not one scientist, or corporation that knows enough about how naturall food works yet to change, process, or recommend anything other than naturally grown food without adversely affecting the health of society. Food Science is too new to test on humans and the food industry is battling government regulations, while western culture battles western diseases, with the fight of the former succeeding at the expense of the latter largely because of the burgeoning nutritionism ideology.