The always entertaining Photodude takes on Frothing Fritz Hollings and his new proposed copyright legislation.

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I guess it is Oscar weekend or something. Who cares. Memento got screwed, and they will never choose LOTR as best picture, even though it is.

And let me be the first person to state that I hate basketball and that I could not give two hoots that Duke lost.

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I love the NY Times because they produce editorials like this.

The Bush administration’s plans for military tribunals to try suspected terrorists are less troubling now than they were when the idea was first announced four months ago. But there is still no practical or legal justification for having the tribunals. The United States has a criminal justice system that is a model for the rest of the world. There is no reason to scrap it in these cases.

Here is how it works, from the NY Times handbook on how to bash anyone to the right of Nader.

1.) Before any action of your opponents, make wild exxagerated claims. Claims like, ‘Bush and Ashcroft want to suspend habeus corpus with secret military trials’
2.) When the guidelines come out, and they are not as onerous and awful as you have screamed from your editorial pages, do not admit sheepishly that all along you were wrong. INstead, pretend that is was your oversight that ‘moderated’ the administration.
3.) Continue to insist the action is a bad idea anyway.
4.) In the future, refer back to point #1 so that you may paint your political opponents as fascists running a secret government, but do not repeat or mention steps 2-3.

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For some reason my links are not working. I have no idea why. I know I have not touched the code since they functioned, but now they be broken. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Pattrick Ruffini agrees with me that Chris Matthews is losing his mind.

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Another amusing site, although I have seen variations of this one for years.

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Why I Love West Virginia, Part 9987

There are a number of reasons to love West Virginia, but you have to just love the common sense of my fellow citizens.

For two weeks now, our local newspaper (why by any objective account is an absolute disgrace- but hey, it is in color and online!) has been running what can only be classified as a hysterical shock campaign about the perils of underage drinking. Morgantown, is a college town with 25k kids. College students drink, even when they are not of legal age. Thus, there is a terrifying underage drinking problem- but not the kind you would think if you read the newspapaer. A couple days reading the blather and you would think that every 13 year old kid in Mon. County was drunk like a monkey.

At any rate, the newspaper asked people to send in their suggestions for ways to combat this horrible menace. How do you think the majority of West Virginians think you can combat underage drinking?

Lowering the drinking age to 18.

I love West Virginia.

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