CISPA passed at 248 to 168. Well at least we’ve still got the senate and Obama. Hopefully one of them will stop it. I don’t have the proper words to express my frustrations. This picture will have to do for now.
Funny story: I actually voted for dinosaurs on my ballot a couple years ago. I voted T-Rex for sheriff.
Last week the Pentagon destroyed thousands of copies of a single book. The book was Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s new memoir “Operation Dark Heart”, about his time in Afghanistan leading a black-ops team, and the Pentagon was so determined the public not read portions of it they purchased all 9,500 copies of it directly from its publisher, St. Martins, with the express purpose of destroying it.
“
| — |
Not A Joke: The Pentagon Just Destroyed Thousands Of Books Holy hell, Ray Bradbury. (via irunfrombears) Happy Banned Books Week, everybody! (via thetart) Oh but guys, it’s okay, because they’re letting him publish a censored version of the book! No big deal, right? (via chelle-shock) Holy shit. (via inautumn-inkashmir) I think about 70% (made up statistic) of the time when sci-fi authors are right I get really ticked off…Why are they always right about the negative politics stuff and not the cool spaceship stuff? |
FUCK THIS
Can a law firm sue up to 5,000 accused P2P users from across the US at once, and in a single DC court? For now, at least, it can.
Read this article and the one linked in the hypertext. Actually it’d probably make more sense if you read the hyperlink first.
Big Donors and Corporations AGAINST Citizens United.
This surprised me a bit.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/big-donors-call-for-stricter-campaign-laws/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/12/donor-strike-rich-progres_n_572766.html
