One of my great, unrealistic wishes for the world is that law enforcement in all nations would focus on worrying about people that hurt people, and not so much on people that might do something potentially harmful to themselves/not pay their rail fare. But, yeah.

Squashy,

I'm not sure you can blame the failure of democracy on a misunderstanding of the definition of trademark. Since, as others have noted, there was the whole "Yoko Sues Lennon" thing. Headline and article were both pretty inflammatory. Doesn't justify an army of pitchforks, but then again, I don't think that's what anybody was calling for. What's that line about journalists? The only profession that's expected to learn everything about anything between 9 and 5? Something like that. It's true; the world is way too big for even a reasonably educated person to know as much as they need to about anything. I'm sorry for my ignorance. But.

Anyway, this is a relief to hear. Everything I've heard/seen of Yoko made me think she was cooler than the article implied she was being. So, yay. Lose a little faith in humanity, gain a little faith in humanity.

A name's a name, not a copyrightable concept. I know that's not legally true, but it seems like it is morally.

And I actually tend to dig Ono, but this move seems unfortunate. I wonder why she's doing it? I mean, Lennon's name is pretty much what it is, for good or ill. Will she start suing people that cover "Imagine" in a way she finds disrespectful?

I'm kinda sad to see Stardust fairing so poorly over there; it's by far my favorite thing of his outside Sandman.

That's great! The neo-nazi episode I remember as being especially amazing and strange.