Category Archives: Politics

Bye, bye, a piece of the pie

USATODAY.com – Bye, bye, a piece of the pie, where the money you spend on music goes.

Free Culture

Free Culture, a book by Lawrence Lessig published under a Creative Commons license. I’m listening to an audiobook of it, legally allowed under the license.

Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses

Announcing (and explaining) our new 2.0 licenses | Creative Commons. I should set this site up with one of their licenses.

Google Bomb List

Google Bomb List. I like ‘unelectable’ and ‘Bush’s foreign friends’.

How Many Republicans…

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb?

The Answer is SEVEN:

one to deny that a lightbulb needs to be replaced

one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the lightbulb,

one to blame the previous administration for the need of a new lightbulb,

one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of lightbulbs,

one to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a lightbulb,

one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the lightbulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag,

and finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a lightbulb and screwing the country.

??Via: Michael Hanscom??

Most Valuable Weapon: the RPG

Most Valuable Weapon: the RPG, a brief history of the cheap and deadly Rocket Propelled Grenade.

Draft targeted for Spring ’05

Legislation has been introduced to bring back the draft as soon as Spring 2005.

There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program’s initiation so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 — just after the 2004 presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public’s attention is on the elections, so our action on this is needed immediately.

$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation.

??Via: Michael Hanscom??