Minor Malorum Duorum

Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner. And his web site is CC licensed. (And McCain can't even "log in" himself, much less spell Creative Commons.)

In case you haven't seen it. Page 2 of the Washington Post Express:

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No longer content to just make shit up, FOX has resorted to shooping pictures of their political enemies in unflattering ways. Rather poorly, I might add.

American Family Association's habit of stripping out words they find inappropriate and replacing them with ones they find more reasonable from Associated Press, has come back to bite them with the recent news on Tyson Gay's record-breaking 100 meter run.

Specifically, he's named as "Tyson Homosexual". Why "homosexual" is more family friendly than "gay", I don't know.

The deal would create a international regulator that could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police. The security officials would be charged with checking laptops, iPods and even cellular phones for content that "infringes" on copyright laws, such as ripped CDs and movies. The guards would also be responsible for determining what is infringing content and what is not.

In the wake of Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins' (R-ME) alarmist report, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," the Senate may be moving towards passage of the Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" (S. 1959)...

the Democrat-controlled Congress seems ready to jettison Constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. The bill passed the House by a 404-6 vote in October...

Hillary Clinton is saying now that she is more electable because white Americans like her more, especially whites who haven't completed college. She's in effect asking you to choose the candidate that uneducated whites support, because that's who can win the general election.

I guess the headline says most of it. The denouement is something like, The police are not amused.

The Iranian police chief in charge of enforcing vice laws was found in a brothel with six prostitutes. I doubt they were dressed as Nazis, but it would certainly add an extra layer of hypocrisy to the tale.

A Russian oil tycoon recently bought a 19-meter-wide drill, coinciding with rumors that President Vladimir Putin will propose the construction of a 64-mile, $66 billion tunnel beneath the Bering Strait connecting Russia to the US.

In Soviet Russia, drill bores you!

Three legislators want to make it illegal for restaurants to serve obese customers in Mississippi.

According to WIRED: A 23-year-old student journalist in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death for downloading and distributing a report that is critical of the oppressive treatment of women in some Islamic societies.
I want to believe these are all isolated incidents, and not a global trend.
The Afghani student reporter,
the Chinese man on the street,
the Saudi blogger

In perhaps one of the more below-the-belt dirty campaign tricks this season, Republican campaign strategist Roger Stone has set up an organization called "Citizens United Not Timid" solely to sell t-shirts with the group's acronym and the suggestion that they are educating the public on "what Hillary Clinton really is".

A star high school track runner has been barred from a big competition because the unitard she wears under her usual team uniform supposedly violates the competition rules. I say supposedly, because when you read the write-up, it doesn't really sound as much like it violates the rules, as much as that guy who enforces the rules just doesn't like it. Bearing in mind that she's been wearing it in competitions in the same region for 3 years. What the article doesn't say is probably more interesting... is that guy new? Is he representing a panel, or is he acting on his own? Is there an appeal option?