There is a book I keep coming across during my Xmas shopping often front racked, very beautiful black and white cover of Bruce Springsteen and Barak Obama. It’s titled Renegades. Each time I imagine it would be better called MultiMillionaires, catchier, more reasonable conclusion for the image. Edward Snowden is a renegade, he still risks life imprisonment for letting people know about ubiquitous surveillance and all your archived meta data ready to sell, censor or punish. Julian Assange a renegade too, making spaces where governments can’t control the message and might spend his life in jail for allowing you access to transparency, that other idea that’s touted to be part of democracy. If Obama was a renegade he wouldn’t have needed to punish those guys. There is a clip on Youtube of Springsteen, live in Europe responding to an encore/request for Chuck Berry’s You Never Can Tell. Not a song I ever gave notice to until the iconic scene in Pulp Fiction between John Travolta and Uma Thurman. Ever since that I’m in love with You Never Can Tell and Springsteen’s rendition is phenomenal, partly because he doesn’t think they know it and when they half try, they falter then change keys and all along thirty thousand Europeans are watching and waiting. It’s still the work of a multimillionaire vs. a renegade but at least it’s awesome.