Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Don’t do it you morons.

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Congress is entertaining a lobby from the RIAA to pass a bill that would tie federal college funding to universities hunting down digital pirates. Now, let’s not forget that it’s not the job of congress to shill for the corporate scum bags at the RIAA or any other corporation. Let’s put aside the [...]

SHARP Network

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Along with the previous post about readable laws. I found this interesting website as well. SHARP Network is a site to catalog wiki style the positions and statements of presidential and eventually local candidates on scientific issues. The goal is to at a glance be able to determine a candidates position on [...]

Readable Laws

Friday, January 18th, 2008

I found this great project where someone has create a wiki to make the law human readable. No longer do you have to understand legalese, you can just go here and find it in common english. I think it’s a great community project and something that I’d been looking for myself since wading [...]

Reagan, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan

Monday, January 14th, 2008

I’ve just finished watching the 2008 South Carolina Fox debate. Seriously, the amount of rhetoric, bullshit and crass racism spewed by most candidates is absurd. Let me list a few for you:
Fred Thompson around 5:30 makes a joke about Iranians meeting the virgins in heaven. Funny Fred, hilarious.
Around 9:10 McCain jokes about [...]

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