The Avacado Still Doesn’t Turn On…
As infuriating as it is brilliant. Just watch.
Coup D’Etat
Do you really think you can control New York City without the cooperation of 40,000 New York police officers? And what about Idaho, with all those militia groups? Do you think you can control Idaho? I’m not even going to talk about Texas.
Folks of the military persuasion talk to Harpers about what an American Coup D’Etat would entail.
Jimmy Wales for President
Breaking ranks from the likes of Yahoo! and Google, Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy wales refuses to censor the Chinese version of it’s online, collaborative encyclopedia.
Wales said censorship was ‘ antithetical to the philosophy of Wikipedia. We occupy a position in the culture that I wish Google would take up, which is that we stand for the freedom for information, and for us to compromise I think would send very much the wrong signal: that there’s no one left on the planet who’s willing to say “You know what? We’re not going to give up.”‘
These guys are going to save the world. Seriously.
Link to coverage in the Guardian
Link to BoingBoing
Link to donate to Wikipedia.
Got No Cable, Missed the Memo
Traveling last week brought something to my attention that had been off the radar for quite a while. Cable TV – specifically cable news.
I mostly read my news. I cross reference between multiple sites. If the New York Times reports something I usually pop over to the BBC to get their British take on the thing (they’re just so damn sensible). I pretty rarely get TV news because while we have a cable modem, we have no cable TV. Oh the irony.
Anyhow, trapped in hotel room for four days with no internet and unable to sleep due to the previously mentioned unfortunate placement of room 801, I got a fair dose of the way most Americans get their news. BE AFRAID! Due to my reading of multiple, non mainstream media sources, apparently I missed the memo that CNN, MSNBC and FOX NEWS have been blasting into the American psyche for the last few years – the world is ending, beginning at democratic party headquarters near you.
I’d actually love to write more but Wolfe Blitzer just told me I need to vote Republican and support unjustified wars in the Middle East in order be a true American. So I’m off to change my party affiliation (apparently I live in a red state) in order to prevent the downfall of the American way. I’ll let that pinko bastard Jon Stewart expound about what I’m trying to get at.
Click the giant play button and be enlightened.
The Damn Democrats
In a miracle of modern science, John Kerry seems to be attempting to grow a spine. Two years too late.
The way forward in Iraq is not to pull out precipitously or merely promise to stay ‘as long as it takes.’ We must instead simultaneously pursue both a political settlement and the withdrawal of American combat forces…”
Maybe this is one of those crazy stem-cell things they keep talking about. The administration’s opposition to the research kind of all makes sense now: if it was out in the open all sorts of Democrats could grow spines and stand up against the Neo-Con regime. Good thing they’ve got that under lock and key.
I like this guy, I even liked him durring the trainwreck of the 2004 campaign, but statements like that are really not helping anybody.