America’s much vaunted Independence Day is still a week away, but we’re dusting off our old Fourth Of July program anyway. This episode holds a special significance for me, and I’m not talking about patriotism. In my brief spoken episode, I offer ambivalent tribute to my state of unemployment at the time. Six years later, my pavement pounding days are hopefully behind me, but the independence afforded by a steady paycheck still strikes me as Kristoffersonesque at best.
But I wasn’t the only one out of a job six years ago. My playmates over at LuxuriaMusic.com had themselves been knocked out from behind their deejay consoles after their parent company was acquired by the ubiquitous Clear Channel. Like me, it took some time, but they eventually got back on their feet. But now, they’re being threatened once again by the very entity whose existence we celebrate on July 4th: the even more ubiquitous United States Government.
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Recently, I’ve been meaning to get some photos of the old 
Jingle writing legend Steve Karmen is probably best known for such hit songs as “Weekends Were Made For Michelob”, “Hershey, The Great American Chocolate Bar” and “When You Say Budweiser (You’ve Said It All).” In the time since his heyday in the 1970s, Steve has burnished his place in history with several books, including the definitive bible of his field, 
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Our stamp series has been so wildly popular among Bostworld readers that I couldn’t resist doing one final episode. This time we bring you two empires, one on the wax and one on the wane, along with some of the smaller satellites pulled along in their wake. While the British Empire both celebrates and defends the trappings of their noble traditions, the