Sometimes i think Ann Coulter exists only to enrage me. She's aleady called me a traitor to my nation, and called for my imprisonment and hanging, for no more than bringing up the fact that maybe, perhaps, the president of our country wasn't completely forthright with us about certain things. Things that involve the lives of millions and, as it turns out, the deaths of thousands. And then she has the audacity to claim that liberals are mindless drones who will vote for whomever the democratic party puts forth. *I'm* the one in lockstep? Please, Ann, take a look at your own jackboots and check real carefully for the 'W' emblazoned on them, you complete tool of neoconservatism.

I won't get into her tearing apart one poor girl whose emotion clearly makes her a retard incapable of making important choices. We must base our decisions on military pragmatism, and anything else makes you no better than a terrorist.

I'm pretty sure the Democrats aren't the ones comparing Dean to McGovern and "wearily predicting a landslide for Bush". Once again, Ann makes a blanket statement and provides ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT for it. For every democrat or liberal i know, a Bush landslide is nothing more than nightmare vision... perhaps we're all prescient, and that's the prediction she means. Hmph. This is a flat out lie to add to her many others.

And from here, we move onto some really classic Coulter : Whenever liberals all start singing from the same hymnal, they are up to no good. (Or since we're talking about American liberals here, maybe I should say, "when they all start reading from the same Quran.")
There are a few different things going on here, so lets analyze each of them. First, she makes the claim that unity of voice is evidence of, what, some deep, dark, liberal conspiracy? This from the very same woman who believes that any disagreement with the current administration is treasonous? Once again, Ann, use the mirror. You're the one with the Hymnal, though it has no songs of love, joy or hope in it. Then, she goes racist. Clearly anyone with a Quran is a terrorist and HATES everything american. And clearly liberals are all so ANTI AMERICA that we reinforce our hatred with the terrorists own training manual the Quran. Goddammit Ann, have you ever even seen a Q'ran? No, didn't think so. Then shut the fuck up and keep your xenophobia and racism to your fucking self.

Ok, now she attacks Dean, calling him appalling, spineless and weak. Well, the first is certainly true for her, considering she thinks he's no better than Osama bin Laden, so, no surprise there. I won't even get close to fully dealing with her hawkish discussion of what does and doesn't constitute bravery -- apparently it involves killing someone, or at least taking off in a plane.

Oh, and one of the stand out quotes of the whole piece "the North Vietnamese were savage beasts, but they never attacked America on its own soil. ... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ]

Yahoo! News - VEGAN COMPUTER GEEKS FOR DEAN

] Asked about the SiteFinder address redirect trick
] Verisign rolled out. A group of "200 technical zealots"
] were against it, and they got all the headlines. Did they
] misinterpret it? Of course. We're not going to let this
] go. It is going to be the point where we answer the
] debate.

Just one flash mob can forever settle that.

] He then goes on to say that we need to move the
] complexity back into the center of the Net! He says
] the edge can't be so complex.

Back? Center? What?!

This is all a ploy to control the net. There is nothing else it can be. There is no way you can understand the Internet and make a statement like that otherwise. Substitute "power" for "complexity" in the paraphrased statement, and you have their motive.

Its not like that's new news, but its still infuriating!

Bring on the alternative naming systems!!

Stratton Sclavos at Red Herring Conference

the Post (no, not NY) takes a stab at patent issues...

] Intel's Grove derides such patent holders for showing
] little interest in producing goods with their inventions
] in favor of demanding licensing fees from others. "We
] call them trolls," he said.
]
]
] Acacia's patents lay dormant for 10 years, until the
] original company was bought out by some of its minority
] investors. Management is now making it one of many
] companies specializing in the business of generating
] money from patents, rather than using them to develop
] products directly.
]
]
] Robert A. Berman, general counsel for Acacia, said that
] many inventors and companies don't have the
] sophistication, expertise or money to commercialize their
] inventions.

seems to me like they should try to find someone who has those things, if they don't, and licence the technology to a developer. something feels wrong with a company finding a patent, letting it sit idle until someone else independently comes up with the idea AND makes the effort to commercialize it, and then smack them after the fact. It certainly doesn't seem to benefit the actual inventor, who in many cases is an engineer who's long gone.

i could argue the other side too, but i'll leave that to someone else... it's a complex issue.

the article also contains a quote from one CEO opining that 20 years of monopoly rights on software is "asinine to the point of ludicrosity". can't argue with that.

washingtonpost.com: Patenting Air or Protecting Property?

EU regulates on some spammers.

] "Of course there are no honest spammers - the whole
] profession is based on deceit," he said.

BBC NEWS | Technology | New laws on spam come into force

] Dean is where he is because of hundreds of thousands of
] supporters. That is the essence of democracy. The system
] didn't give most of them a meaningful vote, and yet it
] didn't matter. They voted (and continue to vote) with
] their money and hard work.
]...
] Gore simply recognized the power of Dean's movement. Any
] of the other candidates would've killed for the
] endorsement, but they didn't earn it. Dean worked hardest
] for it, and that he got it isn't commentary on our
] political system.

an opinion on the endorsement...

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

] The Bush administration is catching and punishing far
] fewer polluters than the two previous administrations,
] according to a Knight Ridder analysis of 15 years of
] environmental-enforcement records.

read on...

Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

] A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld key features of
] the nation's new law intended to lessen the influence of
] money in politics, ruling Wednesday that the government
] may ban unlimited donations to political parties.

Divided Court Says Government Can Ban

] So maybe we can stop having the tiresome argument over
] Big Government vs. Small Government. The Republicans have
] shown themselves to be no different from the Democrats on
] that score.
]
] The argument was always a little off-point anyway. The
] size of the government matters, but not as much as
] something else - whose side the government is on. Does it
] work for the general public or the favored few?

DesMoinesRegister.com | Opinion: Editorial: A short history of government

] As mr. don't points out, the agencies receiving an actual
] failing grade are "the U.S. Department of Justice, as
] well as the departments of Energy, Health and Human
] Services, Interior, Agriculture, Housing and Urban
] Development, and State."

i swear, it's not my fault. ;)

Slashdot | U.S. Agencies Earn

i think this is a mistake.

this was a tough season, but i really don't see how it can be considered dan reeves' fault. anyway, i certainly understand his reaction... if they're gonna dump him for 04, why stick around.

Head Coach Dan Reeves Released from Contract