SOPA and PIPA became toxic, so politions won’t touch em now or risk losing their prcious lifeblood votes.
ACTA
is the new big thing.
I find the video boring, but informative!
This concludes your monthly awareness check, general wackiness/randomness/lackluster posting-ness after the break. Continue reading January Jumpstart: New Fights
So, the U.S. House of Representatives met to discuss SOPA sometime around the 14th-16th of December. They had a live stream of the hearing/reading and it was a trip. Politicians yelling “YIELD” at one another, sassy black politicians being “offensive” (they spent an hour trying to strike the very word “offensive” from the record), old conservative politicians being old and pathetically ill informed, and I think there was at least one gay Jewish guy as well.
It was basically a meeting of every stereotype we’re told not to believe of politicians. Farts were loud, porn was discussed, and a pizza party was had when the time started running into the mid PM hours.
Bingo cards were made by the people that were watching the live stream after so many hours.
I think my favorite analogy one of the old farts made was likening the SOPA/PIPA bill to changing street signs so people wouldn’t be able to find crack houses.
Edit:
So SOPA has been temporally deterred, but PIPA is still live.
The bribe takers in the Senate might try and force it through this week. Looks like there’s a massive call in planned for Tuesday the 29th. Details on that can be found at American Censorship.
Also, to contribute to a filibuster (if it comes to that), there’s this:
So the site went down for awhile and then came back. Can’t have media files stored using site space apparently… Now May is considering moving the website to a new host next August.
You know I’ve long since run out of ideas for these things when I start with a pony. Continue reading October Oblivion
Because “September Sadness” and “September Sorrow” have been done before, as have everything, or so I am finding.
This month has been hard on me… School, various bad things happening to relatives, stressful reunions, and other RL crap. Continue reading September Sassafras
In my quest to be entertained I found something that was like a cross between Rock’s Modern Life, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and the Dodo from “Porky in Wackyland”. Yes, it’s another web comic, I seem to be on a kick of reading new ones without even looking for them, I just find them by accident while looking for something else entirely. Anyway, since I want this picture to be on top of the page for this months entry (so everyone has to look at it 100 times a day), here it is: Frog Raccoon Strawberry. Continue reading July JUUly Ju-ly Ju-ly
Hmm… double meaning?
Yeah, sure, why not? It’s been hot all month, there’s smoke in the air from fires so going outside is literally painful, you can only fuck for so long and for so many days before passing out and losing all sense of time. That, and playing all 32 tracks in Mario Kart Wii get’s stale after the 30th time. Mirror mode is a bitch to unlock and I don’t feel like dedicating the effort to it. Anyway, on with the blog post. Continue reading June is HOT
So, upon typing this it’s the first of May. I get out of bed, pick up the newspaper (fuck yeah, news on paper) and the first thing I see at the top of the front page in nice large, bold letters is “BIN LADEN IS DEAD“. Hmm… This is gonna be a good day. I go to class, get a 113/100 on my test, come home and, what do you know, there’s a puppy.
At first, I was gonna start the post with something like this: