The Pledge of Allegiance, Government, Democrats, Republicans, Bachmann, Scott, Right-Wing

The Pledge of Allegiance

Government

• Our Government Is Corrupt Through and Through -- Where's the Outrage?
• The Justice Department claims it has the right to lie to a judge in federal court--Talk about your slippery slopes.
• Kleptocracy and You
• Starve the bums
• Congress Gets In 12 Solid Hours Of Gridlocking Before Calling It A Day The Onion

Democrats

• Democrats, Seduced by Secret Dollar NYT
• Russ Feingold, Potential Senate Candidate, Rips Democrats For 'Corruption'--Feingold has a progressive mission.
• Union Chief Richard Trumka Fires Warning Shot on 2012 Campaign--"If leaders aren't blocking the wrecking ball and advancing working families' interests, working people will not support them. This is where our focus will be -- now, in 2012, and beyond," [AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka] said, a message aimed at Democrats and President Obama.

Republicans

• GOP Rep. Amash's tea party supporters boot senior citizens, reporters from event
• GOP senators vow to block any nominee for consumer bureau--Why Elizabeth Warren Scares Republicans 
• Senate GOP filibusters Goodwin Liu
• Rep. Rehberg, Whose Net Worth Is $31 Million, Says He’s ‘Cash Poor’ And ‘Struggling’
• Paul Ryan: Secret Union Lover?

Bachmann

• Teen who challenged Bachmann to debate receiving threats--This is the poionous atmosphere today's politics has engendered.
• Historian Challenges Bachmann to Debate
• 17-Year-Old Challenges Michele Bachmann on Law Allowing Creationism To Be Taught In Public School Science Classes--And calls her for lying about her bill being supported by Nobel Laureates.

Scott

• Gov. Rick Scott signs sweeping property insurance changes into law--Who benefits? Certainly not the regular folks whom the former-CEO considers his "employees", which is exactly what's wrong here. Rick Scott works for the people, not the other way around.
• Gov. Rick Scott Uses Sheriffs To Eject ‘Liberal-Looking’ People From Budget Signing Event
• The Rick Scott Effect: Obama’s Approval Rating Skyrockets In Florida

The Right's 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History

Star Wars Weekend, Medicare, Rape-upblicans, Abortion, Racism

Star Wars Weekend

• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - Robot Chicken Commercial
• Basic Instructions - How to Criticize Someone You Respect Deeply
• Star Wars vs. Star Trek
• Star Wars Crayola
• How the Star War Prequels should have ended

Medicare

• McConnell puts Medicare in the ransom note--Threatens with economic blackmail, the same way Boehner is "saying he expects $2 trillion in cuts or he’ll deliberately cause an economic catastrophe."
• Senate Republicans Vote Overwhelmingly To End Medicare
• Despite What Boehner Says, Republicans Have Voted To Cut Medicare, Repeatedly
• Just Because Rep. Paul Ryan Keeps Saying It…--And in fact, his plan will increase health care spending.
• GOP Medicare debacle proves Americans 'love socialized medicine after all'
• Democrat Kathy Hochul Wins Upset In NY-26, Medicare Vote Key To Victory--Democrats are winning the message war.
• GOP Rep. Rob Woodall To Old People on Medicare: Suck it up and take care of yourself

Rape-ublicans

• House GOP Unanimously Passes Anti-Abortion Bill That Redefines Rape, Raises Taxes, And Creates Rape Audits--Republicans and some Democrats are literally wasting taxpayers' time and money with constituent-pandering stunts like this.
• Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraaf: Being impregnated during a rape is just like getting a flat tire--MoJo explains its all.
• Republican Asks Women To Plan Ahead For Rape

Abortion

• Abortion saved my life--"My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway." Salon
• House committee blocks amendment that would allowed military health plans to cover "abortion for servicewomen who are victims of rape and incest."
• Texas Passes 'Emergency' Anti-Abortion Bill Requiring Women To See Sonogram 24 Hours Before An Abortion
• Louisiana House committee approves ban on abortions
• Louisiana Republican: Ban Abortion, Sterilize Poor Women and Pay the Wealthy to Procreate
• Wikipedia: Christianity and Abortion--Back in the day, "[a]bortions were allowed so long as the soul was not yet rational. Aquinas took Aristotle's views further by allowing abortion for the first 116 days of pregnancy, after which time the fetus was considered to be rational."
• Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex--It's "literally unbelievable" to read the reactions from those who thought this Onion satire was for real. Those who wrote these Yelp reviews got it. The Onion

Racism

• Bill Maher: The GOP Treats Obama Like An Unwanted Black Man at the Country Club
• Rep. Walsh: Obama Was Only Elected Because He’s An ‘Articulate’ ‘Black Man’
• Oklahoma GOPer: It's A Fact That 'Blacks' Don't Work As Hard

PATRIOT Act Extension, Star Wars Weekend, IP, ACTA, G20, Youtube Censorship

Patriot Act Extension Signed By Obama--And just hours right after Congress approved it and hours before its midnight expiration. That's change you can believe in. Queue up the American War Machine.

Star Wars Weekend

• Top 278 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"
• Make-A-Wish turns one child's backyard into the Millennium Falcon
• Darth Vader actor David Prowse warns beware of small print
• Store wars as Tesco bans Jedi Knight
• Have You Met My New Girlfriend?

IP

• Senator Blocks Bill Giving Feds Power to Blacklist Piracy Sites--Give it up for Senator Ron Wyden (D).
• Mozilla tells DHS: we won't help you censor the Internet--Talk about chilling effects.
• Leahy's Protect IP bill even worse than COICA--White House wants new copyright law crackdown
• CCIA: copyright wiretaps are Hollywood's "PATRIOT Act"
• The Senators Who Say Merely Linking To Certain Sites Should Be A Felony
• Revised 'Net censorship bill requires search engines to block sites, too
• Being Concerned With Free Speech Implications Of PROTECT IP Does Not Mean You Think You're Above The Law
• Why Web host shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery
• US Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, 'By Mistake'
• Congresswoman: mistakenly seized sites should sue the government

ACTA

• America fields "Son of ACTA" -- a new, sinister, secret copyright treaty
• Support a firm, simple declaration against ACTA
• Obama administration won't release secret ACTA docs either

G20

• Pc faces G20 manslaughter charge
• Into The Fire--Police State at G20 Canada
• Violent suppression of protest at Toronto's G20
• Staggering' conditions on accused G20 ringleader
• Plain-clothes officers 'were deployed at G20 demo'

Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos--The Western governments don't want an Arab Spring of their own.

War on Terror, Supreme Court and Your Rights, Bad Cops, NYPD Blues

War on Terror

• There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says--"Wyden says that what Congress will renew is a mere fig leaf for a far broader legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that the government keeps to itself — entirely in secret. Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher calls a “dragnet” for massive amounts of information on private citizens; the government portrays its data-collection efforts much differently."
• U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba--"The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro."
• Megan McCain: "Rick Santorum telling my father doesn't know about torture is like Carrot Top telling Lebron James he doesn't know about basketball."
• The CIA Weighs In: Torture Did Not Help Find Bin Laden
• US to store passenger data for 15 years

Supreme Court and Your Rights

• SCOTUS Rejects Extraordinary Rendition Case
• Supreme Court: Sex offenders can be held indefinitely
• Has the Supreme Court Decimated Miranda?
• Supreme Court Won't Hear Case Over Computer Tech's Right To Search Your Computer
• Right To Privacy Not Guaranteed By Constitution, Says Supreme Court Justice Peeking In Bathroom Window The Onion

Bad Cops

• "Don't Talk to the Police" by Professor James Duane
• The Blue Code of Silence
• The Lethal Illusion Called 'Authority'
• Seattle Police Reform Proposals: ID'ing Cops Is the One Most Needed, and Least Likely to Pass
• Local computer security expert investigates police practices
• Injustice Everywhere: The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project
• Castro Pot Bust Goes Awry and a Law Professor Threatens to Sue
• SF officers accused of illegal searches, perjury
• Miami Police work hard to protect the First Amendment
• Cop ran Pleasant Hill brothel, co-defendant say
• No limits to the law in NoLa

NYPD Blues

• Who Is Watching the Cops?--Mayor Bloomberg is concerned.
• The New York City Mob
• An afternoon with the NYPD

Man charged with farting in general direction of a police officer--"We actually wish this were satire, but it’s not."

PATRIOT Act, Towel Day, Your Rights Online, Net Neutrality, Social Media, Tech Youth

Senate Avoids Debate, Moves Patriot Act Into 'Small Business Bill'--Credit goes to Republican Senator Rand Paul for standing up for liberty, and I call bullshit to Democrat Senator Harry Reid for not even allowing a discussion.

Towel Day

• Hubble Telescope: Greatest Hits
• Closest Galaxy Discovered
• Have scientists cracked the speed at which the universe is expanding?
• Followup on the star torn apart by a black hole
• This is why our galaxy is called the Milky Way
• Area 51 'Uncensored': Was It UFOs Or The USSR?
• SETI Institute suspends search for aliens
• Astronaut Training Party--Who knows? Maybe one of these kids will grow up to be one.

Your Rights Online

• Berners-Lee: Web access is a 'human right'
• Facebook says they offer "too much free speech"
• G8 vs. Internet--Corporations vs. you.

Net Neutrality

• Help spread the word on Net Neutrality--"Not only are Republicans blocking regulations to protect the Internet from a corporate takeover, they’re actually calling net neutrality a government takeover."
  
• Sen. Franken speaks on net neutrality after receiving 87,000 letters on it.
• FCC chief to Congress: Leave Net neutrality alone

Social Media

• How Social Media Is Pushing the Limits of Legal Ethics
• Class Of 2011: If Social Media Were a High School
• Social Media Explained

Tech Youth

• The Youth Choose Twitter Over Blogs
• The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World
• "It's my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don't have any social values at this point."--Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

PATRIOT Act and bipartisanship, Israel-Palestine Border, Fat Tuesday, Medicare, HCR, Zombie Apocalypse

The Patriot Act and bipartisanship--"A cloture vote was taken in the Senate on the four-year extension and it passed by a vote of 74-8." Salon

Partitioned like it's 1967

• Obama to AIPAC: I won’t back down on Israel-Palestine border issue
• EU backs Obama's call for Mideast peace treaty based on 1967 borders
• Government Official Who Makes Perfectly Valid, Well-Reasoned Point Against Israel Forced To Resign The Onion

Fat Tuesday

• For every $1 spent on health care in the USA, $0.83 is spent on a patient who is overweight or obese
• Babies given anti-obesity drugs in the womb
• Doctors refusing to treat obese patients... this is only the beginning--Is this allowed?
• Obesity In America, By The Numbers
• Scientists Discover Gene That Controls Obesity
• The male stripper blackmail
• Parents Blame Rise In Teen Obesity On Eating-Based Video Game The Onion

Medicare

• GOP Freshmen On Medicare Attacks: Let's Let Bygones Be Bygones--"We ask that you stand above partisanship, condemn the disingenuous attacks and work with this Congress to reform spending on entitlement program." You bought in the party line; now pay the price.
• GOP won't push Medicare cuts at budget talk--"But that doesn't mean the GOP is backing away from its Medicare privatization proposal."
• Republicans' Medicare blunder
• Republicans Dismiss Medicare Unrest as Orchestrated
• GOP Response To Town Hall Backlash: Ban Recording Devices And Censor Citizen Journalists

HCR

• More Solid Proof That Obamacare Is Working
• Vt. Senate approves single-payer plan--And as to be expected, not everyone's happy about it as progress is made.
• Health Insurers Collecting Record Profits, Yet Demand Double-Digit Rate Increases. You'll Never Guess Why!
• At least 600,000 young adults join parents' health plans under new law
• Oregon House Health Care Committee draws testimony on bill to create single-payer universal health care

CDC Urges People To Prepare For Zombie Apocalypse -- And Other Disasters Too

PATRIOT Act and Your Privacy, Rapture, Politics and Religion, Science vs. Religion, Westboro, Philippines, Sex Abuse

Contact Congress Now Before it Deals Away Your Privacy Rights!--"With a week left until three of the most controversial Patriot Act provisions expire, last night, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) made a back-room deal to reauthorize the Patriot Act for four years, avoiding the protracted debate over the extension that was sure to ensue, given the bipartisan opposition to the provisions."

Rapture

• Despite Careful Calculations, the World Does Not End NYT
• End-time comes ... and goes
• 'Judgement Day' passes, world didn't end -- but it will, California broadcaster says--In 19-fuckin-94

Politics and Religion

• Evangelical Idiocy: The Death of America?
• Damon’s Contribution: Louisiana Graduate Stands Up For Constitution – And Gets Grief For It
• David Barton’s Pants Are On Fire… For Jesus--"David Barton wants your kids to believe that America was founded on Christianity."
• Newark's Prayer-Based Crime Fighting Effort Isn't Working
• While Cutting Social Services, Kentucky Gives $43 Million Tax Break To Bible-Themed Amusement Park
• US prisoners refused all books except Bible
• US town sued over denial of mosque proposal--"An Islamic group has sued a suburban town it says engaged in religious discrimination by abruptly changing zoning regulations to prevent the opening of a mosque."

Science vs. Religion

• Some walk out on Bill Nye for saying moon reflects light
• Proving Atheists Wrong with Science #1--It's more like that this proves whoever wrote this claptrap flunked Science.
• Evolution Battle Brews In Texas

Westboro

• Westboro Baptist Church protest raises $44,000 for gay men's group--Comedienne Lisa Lampanelli "promised to donate $1,000 to the Gay Men's Health Crisis, the nation's oldest HIV/AIDS organization, for every member of WBC that protested her show at the Topeka Performing Arts Center."
• Westboro Baptist Church Goes To Mississippi – And Loses
• West Virginians: 1 Wingnut Westboro: 0
• Westboro Baptist Church Pwned!
• What is legal is not always right

Meanwhile, in the Philippines...

• [President] Aquino ready to be excommunicated--For his support of the country's reproductive health bill, which will slow down population growth.
• Philippine condom supporters labeled "terrorists"--Hyperbole, much?
• Celdran released; 'Damaso' draws raves in cyberspace--The issue was already brewing since last year.

Church Report Cites Social Tumult in Priest Scandals--Sexual Revolution Cited as Cause of Priest Abuse NYT

Rapture, Lawsuits, WTF, Deadly Missiles, Killings, Tech Deaths

Rapture Excuse BINGO Card--If "nobody knows the day or the hour," who the fuck died and made Harold Camping god? Guess if people keep guessing, they'll eventually get it right.

Lawsuits

• Woman sues after 'winning' $500,000 scratch-off ticket is called misprint
• Woman Falls In Fountain While Texting, Sues
• Woman Follows Google Maps "Walking" Directions, Gets Hit, Sues

WTF

• Houston judge's daughter sues driver she hit while drunk--Blaming the victim
• Boy burned in H.B. fire pit, wants $500,000
• Family of man hit by train suing railroad, canoe company

Deadly missiles

• GPD charge local woman with throwing a deadly missile at car
• Man arrested after water balloon prank--And charged with "throwing a deadly missile"
• Police quiz boy, 13, over assault with marshmallow

Killings

• News of Edmonton killing stuns Dexter producer
• Mr Gay winner 'killed man and cooked pieces of flesh'
• Philippines killing: 'Killer'caught in victim's photo

Tech Deaths

• Auto-corrected text leads to killing
• Spam King and Family Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
• Web User Sentenced for Killing Rival
• Video gamer hunts down, stabs man who killed his online 'Counter-Strike' character
• Son, 17, held in killing of parents in Adrian; police say they argued over cell phone use
• Daniel Petric killed mother, shot father because they took Halo 3 video game
• Kendall Anderson, 16, Beats Mom to Death for Taking Away His PlayStation

The American Dream

The American Dream--From George Carlin's "Life is Worth Losing"

There's a reason that education sucks, and it’s the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it. Be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the big, wealthy, business interests that control all things and make the big decisions.

Forget the politicians, they’re irrelevant.

Politicians are put there to give you that idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations, and they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State Houses, and the City Halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.

They’ve got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want—they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interest. You know something, they don’t want people that are smart enough to sit around their kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.

They don’t want that, you know what they want?

They want obedient workers, obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now they’re coming for your social security money.

They want your fucking retirement money; they want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it! You and I are not in the Big Club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you in the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to believe, what to think and what to buy.

The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged.

Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people, white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about…give a fuck about you! They don’t care about you at all, at all, at all.

And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.

That’s what the owners count on, the fact that Americans are and will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth, it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

The 'American dream' is actually Swedish: study

American Dream Declared Dead As Final Believer Gives Up The Onion

Community Broadband, Oil and Gas, War on Terror, Wisconsin and Walker, Trump Stumped, Superman Love America Again

"Stop corporations from stopping community broadband" - Lawrence Lessig

Oil and Gas

• Senate rejects measure to end subsidies for big oil companies--The Republicans filibustered the Democrats, 3 of whom went with it.
• ConocoPhillips CEO Refuses To Apologize For Saying It Is ‘Un-American’ To End Oil Subsidies
• Under Questioning by Cantwell, Exxon CEO Estimates Oil Should Cost $60-70 Per Barrel
• GOP Bill Shifts Oil Drilling Cases To Court Dominated By Judges With Oil Investments
• 7 in 10 Americans say high gas prices hurt
• Why You Are Paying So Much for Gas?

War on Terror

• A Conflict Without End--"Republicans want to authorize the military to pursue virtually anyone suspected of terrorism, anywhere on earth, from now to the end of time." NYT
• John McCain to Bush apologists: Stop lying about Bin Laden and torture
• Santorum Says McCain (Who Was Tortured) Doesn't Understand How Torture Works
• Judge wants FBI to explain possibly missing Oklahoma City bombing videotapes
• Rice: Iraq sheltered, trained al Qaeda--Blast from the past
• Schumer proposes 'no-ride list' for Amtrak trains
• Pilot Refuses To Fly With Muslim Men On Board

Wisconsin and Walker

• Facing Recall, Wisconsin GOP Will Hustle Through Voter ID Bill That Disenfranchises Students, Seniors
• Scott Walker Quietly Consolidating Power In Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Governor Walker moves to ban hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples
• Walker Signs Bill Removing Sick Pay Law
• GOP Election Fraud Exposed

Trump Stumped

• Donald Trump announces that he is NOT in fact running for president!--He had gone downhill ever since getting eviscerated.
• Ninety Days Later: Donald Trump's Romp Through 2012 Politics
• We Won't Have Donald Trump to Kick Around Anymore NYT

Superman Loves America Again – It’s Official

Whistle-blowers, Manning, Wikileaks; The end of the world is here... again

Whistle-blowers

• Charges Against the NSA's Thomas Drake--An indepth article by Jane Mayer for The New Yorker on what Obama's been doing. As Mark Klein, who exposed AT&T's complicity in the US government's wiretapping program, sums it up, "The Bush people have been let off. The telecom companies got immunity. The only people Obama has prosecuted are the whistle-blowers."
• Feds Drop Probe of NSA Wiretapping Whistle Blower
• Court allows constitutional challenge to new FISA law Salon

Manning

• I Am Bradley Manning
• Bradley Manning, then and now
• Bradley Manning case: William Hague accused of 'playing avoidance game'

Wikileaks

• Activist who supports soldier in WikiLeaks case sues U.S. over seizure of laptop
• In Hollywood, A Billboard In Support Of WikiLeaks
• WikiLeaks, get out of the gagging game--"I refused to sign Julian Assange's confidentiality agreement because it would have been not just ironic, but dangerous."

The end of the world is here ... again--The weather ain't lookin' so great this Saturday. Salon

Happy Mother's Day; Bin Laden; Oil

Yo Mamma Jokes, Indexed by Professional Employment--Happy Mother's Day.

Bin Laden

• An obituary
• No House resolution honoring military's bin Laden mission
• Republicans just can't handle bin Laden's death
• Bush Aide: Obama Has 'Pounded His Chest' Over Bin Laden--That was supposed to have been Bush's job.
• Obama’s War: The secret behind the bin Laden takedown is the president’s new conception of terrorism.
• Jon Stewart argues for the release of the bin Laden death photo--"We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is, and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin."
• Pakistan leaks Bin Laden death scene photos

Oil

• Obama Calls for End of Oil Subsidies
• The President on Jobs & Gas Prices
• The Four Horsemen Behind America’s Oil Wars
• Exxon Makes $30.5 Billion, So GOP Votes Unanimously To Give Them Tax Breaks
• Palin And Rep. Lankford Defend Wasteful Oil Subsidies: They’re ‘A Drop In The Bucket,’ ‘Only’ 4 Billion Dollars
• 823,475 Reasons Why Speaker Boehner Isn't Serious About Cutting Fossil Fuel Subsidies
• GOP congressman doesn't know why we have the oil subsidies he voted for

Free Comic Book Day, Da-na-na-na-na NA-na-na. Da-na-na-na NA-NA-NA!, Na-na-na-na-na-na-na; Anonymous: Sony is incompetent (and we don't steal credit cards)

Free Comic Book Day

Da-na-na-na-na NA-na-na. Da-na-na-na NA-NA-NA!

• 'Lost' mastermind takes on 'Super'-milestone 
• Bryan Singer Looks Back at Superman Returns
• Superman too super a role model
• Superman Photomanipulation
• Superman is a Dick

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na

• I'm the Goddamn Batman--Best to mute it and let the words speak for themselves.
• 10 Incredibly Badass Batman Comic Moments
• Complete History of the Batmobile: 1941-2010
• Batman and Robin
• Excel-ation

Anonymous: Sony is incompetent (and we don't steal credit cards)--Sony's desperate to distract people from their obsolete security.

Happy Cinco de Mayo; Mexican documentary: The uglier face of justice; Osama's death: Aftermath and Moving Forward; Sony hacked again

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Mexican documentary: The uglier face of justice--"Banning a documentary film has resulted in even more people seeing it."

Aftemath

• "[C]riticizing Democrats for 'politicizing' Osama’s death? Check. Crediting George W. Bush? Check. Rationalizing torture? Check. The talking points are solidifying."
• Osama bin Laden's death: The US patriot reflex
• TX Teacher Suspended After Telling Muslim Student 'I Bet You're Grieving'
• Senate Intel Chair: Torture Did Not Lead To Bin Laden In Any Way
• Rumsfeld confirms: Waterboarding did not net intelligence that led to bin Laden
• Bin Laden's Mountain Fortress: Newsflash from 2001! People actually believed this bullshit.
• Osama Bin Laden: Death Of A Mother Fucker The Onion

Moving forward

• With bin Laden Dead, It’s Time to Restore Bill of Rights
• Is this what closure feels like?--"President Obama vanquished the terrorist who murdered innocent Americans in 2001. Can we have our country back now?" Salon
• Bin Laden Is Dead. Will The Patriot Act Live On?

Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Info at Risk--They're now scapegoating Anonymous.

May the Fourth Be With You; Do Overs and Remixes

May the Fourth Be With You

• Star Wars: A New Heap--"Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Death Star
• Star Wars: Building "Empire" by "Jambe Davda"--A fan documentary
• 19 Facts You May Not Have Known About the Star Wars Universe
• Early Star Wars Storyboards
• Year in Star Wars 2010

Do Overs and Remixes

• 7 Quotes That Could Have Saved The Star Wars Prequels
• Mario vs. Star Wars: Misha's Pop Culture Mash-Up Paintings
• Entire Star Wars "A New Hope" in MS Paint
• 1950s version of The Empire Strikes Back
• What if Luke Skywalker missed?
• "How did my Father die?"
• Incestuous Undertones in Star Wars

Al-Qaeda's leader Bin Laden dead; AT&T; Bank; Tolkien

Al-Qaeda's leader Bin Laden dead

AT&T

• AT&T Broadband Metering Is Shoddy And They Know It
• AT&T Is Asking Us To Trust Them
• AT&T Admits the Sad Truth: It Can't Handle the iPhone's Needs

Bank

• Citibank tries to wire $27 million to Nigerian scammers
• Bank confusion turns into $10,000 problem for Petaluma man
• Student's £100bn overdraft shock
• Bank error leaves man $208 billion overdrawn
• It's Coming: The $5 ATM Fee--What do you think of hidden bank fees?

Tolkien

• JRR Tolkien Estate Threatens Lawsuit Over Book Featuring Tolkien As Character
• Zazzle pre-emptively discontinues sale of "potentially infringing" Tolkien-ware --Buy your contraband T_LK_N schwag.
• Middle-earth according to Mordor--And according to Kirill Yeskov

President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner; Marriage Equality, Politics, No to H8, Salon, Advocacy

President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner--The opening bit was just pure awesomeness, and if you've got 20 minutes to spare, check out Seth Meyers' remarks (and the Trump's reactions).

Marriage Equality

• The Prop 8 judge is gay: Does it matter?
• Local church votes for marriage equality, ends practice of signing marriage licenses
• Conjugal visits allowed for inmates and partners in same-sex marriages, civil unions
• Iowa GOP tries to impeach State Supreme Court over marriage equality
• Firm Defending Marriage Act for Republicans Drops Case

Politics

• TN Senate Passes 'Don't Say Gay' Bill
• Michele Bachmann Not Sure If the Gays Are a ‘Public Health Crisis'
• Remember The Asshat Legislator Who Tried To Repeal LGBT Rights In Montana?--"She's totally a closeted lesbian," claims a source.
• GOP House Chairman Quietly Invites Hate Group Leader to Testify against Gay Marriage
• Michigan Student Sues Former Asst AG Who Harassed Him For Being Gay

No to H8

• One-Two Punch: Man Is Beaten In Anti-Gay Hate Crime and Also by America's Sick Health-Care
• Malaysian authorities sent 66 schoolboys identified as "effeminate" to an anti-gay counseling 
• Gauguin Attacker Angered By "Very Homosexual" Art --And then it gets really weird.
• Gay couple 'kicked out of London pub for kissing'
• Family Values In America

Salon

• Dan Savage is coming for your kids--"And thank goodness for that. The sex writer and "It Gets Better" creator has a message for homophobic parents"
• The problem with gay men today--"Outspoken activist Larry Kramer wants to know why this generation is so apathetic while he's still so angry."
• Why I have to legally adopt my own son

Advocacy

• Richard Metzger: How I, a married, middle-aged man, became an accidental spokesperson for gay rights overnight
• WWE Partners with GLAAD on Anti-Bullying Messages
• Video Game Company Scorns Homphobic Gamer: "Get Over It"