Yahoo! In the midst of some terrible totalatarian, negatively ultra-conservative government and corporate actions (eg: FCC crackdowns, holding U.S. citizens indefinitely and without any rights under SUSPICION of terrorist activities, John Ashcroft in general,) the government is starting to make good on their fight against cyber-terrorism, or “Spam!” http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/29/internet.spam.ap/index.html I love the quote regarding one [...]
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Maybe We Should Have Rethought It…
Something comedian and “fake” anchorman Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” said the other night got me thinking. He was interviewing the author of a book about freedom and the Middle East, and Jon asked, “Is part of the problem with Iraq that they don’t have a good story to go with their liberation? In [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about guns lately…again. I want to own one. Or more. But why, I ask myself. It’s no secret, I think, that I really love guns, the objects themselves, but despise and hate and dread the use of guns and what they do. Kind of a weird contradiction, I suppose. Maybe [...]
READ MORE »Passion of Christ
(Yeah, I know, old news. Just haven’t gotten around to typing anything about it yet.) Interesting. I was worried when I read film critic Roger Ebert say it was one of the most violent movies he’s ever seen, considering this reviewer has seen the likes of everything from “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” to “Elephant”. I get [...]
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