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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Virtual Reality Living
Video And Fascism
From TIME, a look at efforts by police departments to arrest and prosecute civilians with videocameras. The operative ‘graff: The legal argument prosecutors rely on in police video cases is thin. They say the audio aspect of the videos violates … Continue reading
Government By Google
This is why the ACLU had a booth at Netroots Nation pushing updated electronic privacy legislation. Via HuffPo: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. is gearing up to sell its e-mail and other Web-hosted applications to a wider range of … Continue reading
Music Industry Loses Money On Copyright Enforcement
At the end of the 20th Century, the Recording Industry Association of America set out to find and prosecute online music “thieves.” There was a brief celebration of their copyright “victory” when Napster went down; but downloaders simply moved on … Continue reading
World Cups
Larissa Riquelme is doing her Godiva-walk after all “as a present to the team.” Meanwhile, a single picture of her posted here a few days ago has brought this site’s biggest traffic spike in months (much of it from South … Continue reading
Facebook Will Not Replace Email
Matt checking in from Canada So the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook says that email is “going away.” I’m sure she’ll be recognized as a visionary for making that statement, but as long as Facebook requires an email address to … Continue reading
The Singularity Will Cause Cancer
By Captain Coolaid Technology exceeded our ability to adapt to it shortly after the industrial revolution. The Singularity is about technology advancing beyond our ability to even imagine the future. If you need to know more about it then check … Continue reading
EPIC CIVILIZATION IV MILKSHAKE STRAW
Seriously. Read the rest here. Hurricane-survivable. Really. Just pay for it with milkshake. Mmm. Progressive milkshake tastes like win.
Big Music Insists On Its Own Extinction
Mark Gorton made a sincere effort to offer the RIAA a way into the 21st Century, but now admits it was a bad idea: “Perhaps I was naïve,” Mr. Gorton said in an interview last week at LimeWire’s office near … Continue reading
Gibson’s Law Strikes Again
A prominent evangelist’s tale of salvation from the evils of jihad-Islam has been debunked: In recent months, a group of Muslim and Christian bloggers have made an airtight case against many of Caner’s fabrications using the kind of documentation — … Continue reading
Second Life Sued
Speaking of Netroots Nation, I was catching up with Second Life when I ran across the news that users are suing the creators: The users are claiming that Linden Labs and Founder Philip Rosedale persuaded them to invest money and … Continue reading
Are Comment Trolls An Endangered Species?
Article comments and opinion forums have been problematic for news sites, particularly newspapers, because the anonymous nature of comment systems makes them havens for slanderers, trolls, and paranoiacs. But comments have also been a huge part of the internet’s growth … Continue reading →