HT to Captain's Quarters for digging into the rich literary history of our nation and finding this quote from Mark Twain regarding his intended response to a ruling by a judge that a bookseller could sell bootleg copies of one of Twain's novels without permission.
"It does look as if Massachusetts were in a fair way to embarrass me with kindnesses this year. In the first place, a Massachusetts judge has just decided in open court that a Boston publisher may sell, not only his own property in a free and unfettered way, but also may as freely sell property which does not belong to him but to me; property which he has not bought and which I have not sold. Under this ruling I am now advertising that judge's homestead for sale, and, if I make a good a sum out of it as I expect, I shall go on and sell out the rest of his property."
Sound like a fine idea.
Justice Stevens? Wal-mart on Line one....
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