This week, I have been mostly reading:

• Son, It’s Time You Learned About Sex by Discussing David Bowie’s Huge Bulge in Labyrinth — Nathan Kamal in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hey sport, how you doing? Sorry to interrupt your homework, but you probably don’t mind, do you? Listen, son. Your mother and I had a discussion, and we think it’s time you learned about sex by discussing David Bowie’s huge crotch bulge in the movie Labryinth. I know, I know. This is awkward for me too. I wish my dad had been able to show me rock chameleon David Bowie’s enormous package when I was your age. But he was from a different generation, and also the movie wasn’t released until 1986.
• Racist hate crimes targeting Sydney's Indigenous homeless — Joanna Psaros in Independent Australia: On Wednesday 24 March, Michael*, an Indigenous man, was asleep on Eddy Avenue outside of Central Station when he was shaken awake. A friend urgently warned him that known intruders – “Black haters” wearing jackets adorned with swastikas – were on the way. Michael was not fast enough and, less than a kilometre from Surry Hills Police Station, was violently beaten. Michael was not the only casualty that night. And that night was not the first that Sydney’s homeless were awoken to the reality of White supremacy while the rest of Australia’s eyes remained firmly shut.
• Doonesbury — by Garry Trudeau:
  
• Hollywood Lobbyists Intervene Against Proposal to Share Vaccine Technology — Lee Fang at the Intercept: Advocates for temporarily suspending copyright enforcement claim that a truly global response to the pandemic requires open access to knowledge. While most of the public attention has been on vaccines, copyright enforcement also forbids sharing industrial designs used for the manufacturing of ventilators and other medical products crucial to fighting the pandemic. As early as last March, engineers who produced 3D-printed spare parts for ventilators faced warnings from corporate lawyers for potentially infringing on intellectual property and copyright protections. “The MPA, the music industries really aggressively resist any kind of copyright policy that bends toward access,” said Sean Flynn, director of the information justice and intellectual property program at the American University College of Law. This is not the first time that Hollywood lobbyists have intervened on a human rights-related treaty to maintain protections for copyrighted products.
• As a Centrist Democrat, I Ran on a Promise to Fix Killer Shower Clowns. But Now That I’m in Office, I Believe We Should Consider the Issue More Cautiously — Nathan Spring in McSweeny's: For years, I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not there should be an organized response to these deadly clowns with spiders for hair behind the shower curtain, and I just don’t think the research is there yet. Of course, I’m very concerned about the one with two different colored eyes that screams my deepest secrets, but I’m just not sure I really want Big Government in my home. […] In a way, aren’t specially trained federal agents in our homes just as dangerous as that one clown that seems to be moving backward in time? I just think people overlook a lot of nuances. How you wish to deal with your shower clowns is a very personal decision. If we take that choice away, some people could actually be worse off. Some families might have access to magical weaponry or some sort of Omega Cube; if we get the federal government involved, do they lose access to those avenues? Is that fair?