downfall of civilization

As if it wasn’t obvious in the past, it certainly is obvious now that the RIAA has absolutely no desire to protect the interests of the recording artists and is out for only one client—its record labels.

It would be amazing to see both houses of Congress shift in power tonight.

At first I was going to write something about the anniversary, but I realized, as we got closer to the date, and especially after I did the concert, that I really didn’t know what to feel about it. I was confused, hurt, angry, morose, and just plain annoyed at everything. The politicization, the pseudo-patriotism, everything about it just kinda made me sick.

George Washington… Come on, you can do it. You know you want to.

Vice President Says He Has Authority to Declassify Items
Apparently, Mr. Cheney thinks that he can retroactively declassify something. In order words, what Lewis Libby did in leaking CIA agent Valerie Plame’s name to the press wasn’t illegal because he says that it wasn’t—even though it’s now years later. Why? Executive Privilege.
I just […]

Stewart to host this year’s Academy Awards ceremony
I’m so watching this year’s Oscars.
My favorite part of the whole article is the comments at the bottom. It’s amazing how ridiculous people can get over this stuff.

“[The] clearest reading of the pronouncement is that some unelected bureaucrats at the commission have decreeed that Americans don’t have the right to use software such as Skype or PGPfone if it doesn’t support mandatory backdoors for wiretapping.”

Excuse me?

…There Are Liberals Under My Bed!”

My brain literally did a hard crash and reboot when I saw this.