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tags:  humor  politics
posted at 08:58 on 7.29.09
tags:  bandwidth capping  oh snap  consumer issues  monopolistic bastards  politics
posted at 10:57 on 6.19.09
tags:  technology  POTUS  politics  teh internets
posted at 08:54 on 4.19.09
tags:  pirates  lawsuits  WTF  politics
posted at 09:08 on 4.17.09
tags:  idiots  politics
posted at 20:10 on 4.12.09
tags:  teh internets  net neutrality  politics
posted at 09:51 on 4.11.09
tags:  politics  economics  idiots
posted at 15:38 on 3.27.09
tags:  idiots  politics  economics
posted at 18:41 on 3.15.09
tags:  POTUS  politics  economics  Britan  oh snap
posted at 19:45 on 3.08.09
tags:  gaming  politics  POTUS
posted at 12:22 on 2.22.09
tags:  pirates  politics  legal
posted at 21:05 on 2.19.09

politics:

Shatner does Palin quitter speech justice - it’s a poem?!

Eric Massa is my fucking hero

My new hero in congress, NY-D Rep. Eric Massa, introduces a bill that makes broadband capping illegal and bandwidth metering illegal, as enforced by the FCC. At least SOMEONE is keeping up on how to keep consumers advocated and the e-Conomy 2.0 humming along…

Obama appoints first-ever Chief Technology Officer

He seems to be right for the job - O’Reilly likes him, and his CV reads like it should. Watch the full video announcement here.

Pirate Bay loses court case, gets jailtime

Wait… really? The prosecution case was coming apart at the seams for most of the case…

Video from inside Fox News’ Glen Beck’s tea party. God save the GOP from its constituents.

FCC announces national broadband plan

This could be amazing. And be a public, open, functional, South Korea-esque access network that would finally kick those monopolistic bastards at TWC, AT&T, Comcast, etc to the curb.

Congress saw financial crisis coming in 1999

They totally called it:

I think we will look back in 10 years’ time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930’s is true in 2010” Oops.

Palin pulls most earmark dollars per capita in nation

Oh yeah. She’s clearly against pork spending…

Obama snubs Gordon Brown

Uh oh. I’m having a hard time teasing this all apart. This article (from the British media) makes Obama out to be overworked, overstressed, and not paying any attention to foreign policy. That said, I think the Brits probably got used to overly rosy love-fests when Bush was in office, and the reality is that POTUS does have a real shitter of a domestic crisis on his hands.

But that said, while him being to busy to drop everything and feed Brown supper seems plausible, the mentions of fatigue, exasperation, and a general sense of being overwhelmed are troubling. Then again, isn’t that part of any new job? Not to mention taking said job during the escalation of the worst economic crisis the modern world has ever seen?

Just for giggles, I’d love to see how bizarro-Earth 3-term Bush would be handling any of this…

A Wii in the Whiite House

It’s a new era, eh?

Pirate Bay trial: Day 3. King Kong and Awkward Lunch