Open Threads

Here is a link to Congress where you can submit your comments about the Consumer Broadband and Digitial Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) currently being proposed by Hollings et. al. Go there now and sign the petition.

My remarks were typically hotheaded and mean-spirited, and they will probably not be published:

Are you people insane? Is Fritz Hollings that married to Big Entertainment?

It is time for you guys to leave things you REALLY, REALLY don’t understand alone, and go back to fussing with things that you simply REALLY don’t understand.

Like Social Security Reform. Or tax code. Or Tort Reform. Or McCain-Feingold and the 1st amendment.

When you are done, go visit Bill Says This, where I found the link, and thank him for the heads up. He has a nice little site with a lot of goodies.

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This was damned disturbing. Via No Watermelons Allowed.

This was damned disturbing. ViaPost + Comments

Steve at HappyFunPundit caught the rhyming bug too:

Twas the third day of April, and all through the East
Not a creature was stirring, except a rough beast
The sensors and landmines concealed in the sod
Were set to help terrorists meet with their God.

Al Qaeda was nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of martyrdom danced in their heads.
And I, having lived through their unfriendly fire,
Settled down for a nap in this brutal quagmire.

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If anyone has ANY idea what to do to fix my permalinks, please email me. I have not messed with the code and they just refuse to work.

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This is just beautiful. Will Warren beats Alex Beam with a rhyme. I have not laughed so hard since the Heather Mallick poem.

He’s the ’62 Mets of the features page,
The de Havilland Comet of the modern age.
As solid as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge,
As sure as the Exxon Valdez, or Tom Ridge.
He’s the fourth Stooge, Charlie Brown without the nice,
The Titanic steaming madly toward the ice,
The Ottoman Empire of the copy desk,
With head so marbleized it’s quite statuesque.
Of prose pros in Beantown, he’s the shoddiest,
Of all Hub nimrods, he’s the nimroddiest.
He’s the ornament of the All-Schlump team:
Hail King Alex, news crap-out supreme!

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Is this memo really necessary?

The State Department, citing a “deteriorating security situation,” warned Americans on Tuesday to defer travel to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and said dependents of American diplomats in Jerusalem were being encouraged to go home.

“The potential for further terrorist acts remains high,” the travel warning said. “The situation in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza remains extremely volatile with continuing terrorist attacks, confrontations and clashes.”

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A bitchy and somewhat deranged monkey finds a keyboard, and this is the result.

A bitchy and somewhat derangedPost + Comments