Arrrrrgh…beware…there be pirates in these waters, matey!

Today’s thoughts are about piracy, and not the good old-fashioned, walk-the-plank, pillaging kind of piracy. I was thinking more about digital piracy based on these two articles on CNN.com today (note these are my own headlines, not CNN’s):
RIAA Going after college kids
Study says video download business to boom
The first article is about illegal [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day…

…to all you luvahs out there.
By the way, have you noticed that Valentine’s Day has the same initials, that is, V.D., as Venereal Disease? Keep it wrapped tonight, boys.
I’m just sayin’.

Blue Collar Blue State?

Next week in New Jersey, those of us who are *shhhh* gay *shhhh* will be able to get a Civil Union.  This follows the decision in Lewis v. Harris, in which the NJ Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples must be granted the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual married couples under the language in the [...]

Beware the Edamame

Jim Rutz of WorldNetDaily is FULL OF CRAP.
In a December commentary series on WorldNetDaily (or as it’s quite appropriately called by Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend, “WingNutDaily”), Rutz claims that Soy is making kids ‘gay’ (his quotes, not mine).
For anyone who is unfamiliar with WND, it’s ground zero for willfully ignorant bible thumping jackasses.  [...]

Denville, NJ Mayor Gene Feyl is Full Of Crap

Mayor Gene Feyl of Denville, NJ: You are FULL OF CRAP. 
The following is from the NJ Star Ledger:
Denville Mayor and Freeholder Gene Feyl, who initially said he would not perform a civil union if asked to by a gay couple, said yesterday he no longer objects to it, and his thinking has changed since Attorney General [...]

Irony

Before I post this weekend about PETA (and yes, I know that post is overdue since last week) I wanted to share something I saw the other day. I was driving, and saw a bumper sticker that read:
“Your HUMMER is a real BUMMER”
Which might have been a more effective statement were it not stuck [...]