On Leonard Nimoy's birthday, Museum of Science announced as location for Live Long and Prosper statue - just three blocks from where he grew up

I mean, c'mon.

Also, this statue will never catch fire, drop a finger on the street after a rainstorm, or accidentally run down a pedestrian. Safety costs!

Pay the King family.

MLK spent most of his life knowing he existed on a figurative death row. He sacrificed his life for this country and for every US citizen alive today. He spent all of his money, including the $54,000 from his 1964 Nobel Prize, on fighting for civil rights and equality. Instead of grifting off the cause, he left his family financially with nothing.

What he did leave was perhaps the single most important trove of intellectual property in modern American history. Disney doesn’t allow others to profit from their IP. Bob Dylan, Stephen King, Tennessee Williams, NBC, MGM etc don’t freely give out their IP for others to profit from. Just because MLK was not a novelist, a playwright, a filmmaker, or a songwriter, it doesn’t deminish the fact that his intellectual property is still property.

Imagine your father was arguably the most important American of the 20th century—the only American who is a non-President with a national holiday, a man who toiled every day under the threat of assassination and spent all liquid assets on bettering the country—and you are criticized for wanting a cut when people move to profit off of your dad’s intellectual property? That IP is their inheritance.

Turley’s take is recycled white supremacist bullsh**. You like getting paid for your labor, don’t you?

Proof that the progeny of greatness does not necessarily match the parents. Bernice King, daughter of MLK Jr., pious and devoted to God, royalties and damning Gay people.

Perhaps this says more about how certain individuals become great. Where doctors, lawyers, artists, experts in whatever fields often raise children who follow in the same life paths, the one life path that has no inherent aspect of to be a person of greatness.

That begs the question of what is a great person? Martin Luther King Jr. is considered great. But there are plenty of people who consider Reagan great.

Does greatness - at least in the US - require a quality of good? What then is good? For any wanting a nation of few elites versus the vast majority of unimportant hoi poloi, Reagan again would be great, while King would be the opposite.

In any case I have not read about descendants of Leonard Nimoy throwing law suits around trying to wring every penny out of Leonard's estate. While the King children have shown that between the profit and prophet of their parents, profit won.

Mr. Trump Superfan is complaining about grifting offspring.

Can't make this shit up.