Hey! Other states, take note. Michigan is dropping mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes. And the sky didn’t fall, kids aren’t running in the streets raping Salvation Army bell ringers! Maybe education and treatment are the right answer after all. Hey… You’re not listening, are you? Yeah… I didn’t think so. What’s that? Yeah, System of a Down does rock pretty hard, fuck yeah!
Archive for December, 2002
This article is a worthwhile read about the current state of the MPAA/RIAA vs. The Civilized World debate that’s currently being fought (bought?) on the floor of Congress, but I particularly liked this analogy: “If Jack Valenti had been around at the time of Gutenberg he would have organized the monks to come and burn down the printing press.”
Of course they’re going to say they didn’t get it… Cause she wants more, man! She’s got to feed the monkey!
Well-poisoning excuse from a speechwriter’s pen
He knows he don’t have to say it so it don’t bother him
Honesty, accuracy, they’re just popular opinion
The approval rating’s high
Yeah so someone’s gonna die
–Bright Eyes, Let’s Not Shit Ourselves
Attention! Germany needs beer!
I feel so much safer now. This is the best the the government has done since they put all those first-time drug offenders in prison, thereby saving their lives and solving the problem of drug addiction, once and for all! Isn’t America great?!
If nobody steps forward and takes responsibility for this then the whole Congress has to stay after school, forfeit their health insurance, and let me feed them Strep A mixed with iron filings.
And this is not it!
Attention: Anyone who bought a CD between 1995 and 2000, the “Recording Industry” would like to offer their sincere apologies. It turns out they were guilty of price fixing during this time period, and they feel really horrible about the whole thing. To make up for it, they’d like to send you a check! (unless it turns out that they screwed over so many people that they could never pay them all without going bankrupt, which they amost certainly have, in which case they’ll just give all the money to charity and non-profits.) So, read more here and then maybe check out the exciting, new plans the Recording Industry has cooked up to fuck consumers over, courtesy of the cyber-activists at the EFF! (via boing boing)
“I’m a crazy kind of cat,” he said. “I always do funky stuff. I like cool fashion, cool exotic jewelry, high-tech exotic watches, stuff like that.“
