Strict Construction, My Foot*

When it comes to promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution), its more like strict construction be damned.  And, sad to say, this applies to Democrats as well as Republicans.  Even when a young Republican law student has the temerity to point this out and, in the process, point out that it's an indictment of his party's alleged economic principles, his party does him the favor of allowing him to promote the truth for 24 hours--before they sit on it.

The basic problem here, sadly, is not limited to intellectual property.  The basic problem is the reality of modern America as a multinational corporate state, one in which politics is bought out, money is shipped overseas, and the poor suckers on the outside (that's you and me) are expected to buy more and more with less and less.

It's never going to change until we wake up and fight.  It's almost now or never.  And I'm half tempted to leave out the almost.

*As opposed to a less attractive anatomical part.