For my friends with a habit

It's a little long...fast forward to about 2:30. Bless you Stephen Colbert.

eighty-six freedom!

French fries are back on the menu at the House of Representatives cafeteria.

My Bush-mocking post of the day

In this photo-op gone awry, Bush makes a German infant cry.

I would love to see the recent German news with regard to our Commander-in-Chief. First he gets a little too friendly with their Chancellor, now he's scaring their babies. They must be wondering how we ended up with this putz in office.

Stairs are hard

Heh heh, he almost fell:

Slippery Steps

deleting huh?

This is stupid! Stupid! This is the kind of stuff Congress pulls when it's hot out and there is a new war and Americans don't pay attention to domestic news. The House of Reps just passed The Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) which is a crazy paranoid out-of-touch boo-stupid taking-advantage-of-fear pandering-to-the-religious-right piece of legislation.

From the Register:
The Act forbids publicly funded organisations, such as schools and libraries, from allowing young people to access sites that have chat rooms or "social networking" elements...Opponents argue that the definitions in the law are so vague that they could take in a vast array of existing commercial websites and damage the business potential of those sites and the research capabilities of schools and libraries.

This blog would be banned under DOPA, just to give you an idea how the bill defines sites to ban. And our little procrastination project is pretty innocuous, save for Shawn's recent contributions. I know it's about protecting the kids, but why not let libraries come up with their own policies LIKE THEY DO NOW. Why punish libraries for having the internets? Why not write a real bill that actually punishes the middle-aged creeps who lurk on MySpace looking for under-age prey?

I propose that we all call Russ (or whoever your senator is) and tell him not to vote for DOPA when it gets to the Senate. Delete DOPA.

Colbert Analyzes Wikipedia

Colbert is the master of information--I'm gonna wiki that!

Cool it now

Any thoughts or feelings RE: happy hour location this week? I think the heat wave is scheduled to cease tomorrow, so we can drink outside in comfort once again.