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ITunes, the leader of the digital music services pack, has a catalog of over 700,000 songs -- but that's not nearly enough for Apple. To maintain its lead, the company is on a hunt to find exclusive music, everything from out-of-print singles in music company vaults to songs that have never been pressed onto a CD and even recordings from the estates of deceased artists. On the conference call about the first birthday of the iTunes Music Store, Jobs said that getting such songs online is one of the next...

"with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable" ~ H.D. Snell, Sr. I've heard and read and seen this quote many times over the past three years. H.D. Snell was the founder of United Supermarkets, my employer, back in 1918. His idea and hard work has blossomed into a 47 store, 800 million dollar operation. His words are powerful because they speak such truth to the american dream. H.D.'s generation was very unlike ours today. Cynicism didn't flow through their veins like it does today. A man was...

  We have traveled a long, dark, strange road since the attacks of September 11. We have all suffered, we have all known fear and anger, and sometimes hatred. Many of us have felt –– probably more than we are willing to admit it –– at one time or another a desire for revenge, so deep was the wound inflicted upon us during that wretched, unforgettable Tuesday morning in September of 2001.   But we have come now to the end of a week so awful, so terrible, so wrenching that the...

I'm sure not many have actually heard the eulogy given by Pat Tillman's brother. It wasn't caught by the mainstream media, and if they did, they toned it way down. This is the actual eulogy, i kid you not. Thanks Pat. [toasting him with a glass of Guiness beer] I didn't write shit because I'm not a writer. I'm not just going to sit here and break down on you. But thanks for coming. Pat's a fucking champion and always will be. Just make no mistake, he'd want me to...

May 6, 2004 – Editorial, New York Times Disney's Craven Behavior Give the Walt Disney Company a gold medal for cowardice for blocking its Miramax division from distributing a film that criticizes President Bush and his family. A company that ought to be championing free expression has instead chosen to censor a documentary that clearly falls within the bounds of acceptable political commentary. The documentary was prepared by Michael Moore, a controversial filmmaker who likes to skewer the rich and powerful. As described by Jim Rutenberg yesterday in The Times,...

A week or so ago, I made a very bad attempt at espousing what I thought about same-sex marriage. It was late at night and for some reason I couldn't get my thoughts together. The finished product was, well, not so good. Kyle Lent emailed me a day or two later and let me have it for my rough comparison. I think my reply was better than my original post, so let's call this: same-sex, try again. kyle: first off, i appreciate you expressing your point of view; that’s what...