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The Raw Story | Bush ‘kills’ Freedom of Information Act compliance officer:
Bush ‘kills’ Freedom of Information Act compliance officer

mental_floss Blog » Frank Lloyd Wright, Oil Heat and Bolivian Cults: The Secrets Behind Your Favorite Toys:
Frank Lloyd Wright, Oil Heat and Bolivian Cults: The Secrets Behind Your Favorite Toys

Listening To:
Tiny Wind Of Shandl [Side 2] from the album “Enlightening Beam Of Axonda” by Brown, Bobby

Animals: Dog Barks Deciphered; Yes, Dogs Are as Simple and Dumb as You Thought:
Dog Barks Deciphered; Yes, Dogs Are as Simple and Dumb as You Though

U.S.: Al Qaeda video shows armed boys in training – CNN.com:

Now you too can be a wide awake drunk!-MC
Two great tastes: tequila and espresso?:
Two great tastes: tequila and espresso?

Listening To:
Sheep From Goats – A02 – Away

Listening To:
Paradise Of Fools from the album “Paradise Lost” by Urban Sax & Pierre Henry

Miss. law would ban serving obese diners – Yahoo! News:
Miss. law would ban serving obese diners

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Hillary Clinton Cries In Connecticut – Politics on The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Cries In Connecticut

This video shows numerous examples of McCain’s double-talk express. He often says one thing, then exactly the opposite — sometimes just minutes later. His beliefs are based on pleasing special interest groups. How can you ever believe where he stands, on any of the major issues facing us today?

Now RIAA wants $1.5 million if you copy a CD:

Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work. In the RIAA’s perfect world, each copied track would count as a separate act of infringement, meaning that a copying a ten-song CD even one time could end up costing a defendant $1.5 million if done willfully. Sound fair? Proportional? Necessary? Not really, but that doesn’t mean it won’t become law.

The change to statutory damages is contained in the PRO-IP Act that is currently up for consideration in Congress. We’ve reported on the bill before, noting that Google’s top copyright lawyer (and the man who wrote a seven-volume treatise on the subject of copyright law), William Patry, called the bill the most “outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.”

The industries pushing it (music, especially) have an “unslakable lust for more and more rights, longer terms of protection, draconian criminal provisions, and civil damages that bear no resemblance to the damages suffered,” he said.

Secret societies | Salon Books:
The big secret about secret societies

The dismal state of George W. Bush | Salon News: