Fascist photo flap

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Last weekend, some of the techtopians raised a flap over Starbucks’ fascist policy forbidding photography in their stores, encouraging readers to storm the barricades with their digital cameras to take back this commons, give power to the people and smash the state, so a lot of folks complied.
Now we have another case of photo-fascism involving [...]

Worst-kept secret in history

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CNN finally breaks the blackout in the proposed FCC rule changes on media ownership:

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Federal Communications Commission has received so many public comments on its Web sites regarding Monday’s vote on media ownership consolidation that the agency is having “problems” with its server, an FCC official said Friday.
And the messages aren’t [...]

Fish gonna swim

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Three fish, saltwater, rock, and a couple of corals doesn’t make a reef.

But it’s a start.
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Family values

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See Tim Blair’s column in The Australian on bias in down under media:

Ironically, the best comment on the war came from a talkback caller rather than an ABC presenter. The caller’s name was Jill and she told Sydney ABC drivetime host Richard Glover that she’d migrated to Australia after World War II. “I wish we’d [...]

Times revisionism

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Jarvis reported on a complaint from NY Daily News columnist Zev Chafets on Maureen Dowd’s use of ellipses to alter the meaning of a statement by the president on Al Qaeda:

Here’s what she wrote:
“‘Al Qaeda is on the run,’ President Bush said last week. ‘That group of terrorists who attacked our country is slowly but [...]

Instapundit backup site

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Hosting Matters is down, and with it a number of blogs such as Jeff Jarvis and Instapundit. There is an Instapundit backup site if you can’t live without your hourly fix of Professor Reynolds. Oddly, the Hosting Matters status page is silent about the problem, which has persisted for several hours. They must have pissed [...]

Basic stand

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This is the bottom part of the stand.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Misstating the Obvious

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Krugman’s on the rampage against the tax cut, and he’s got the Financial Times on his side. He claims we were getting a great deal on taxes already:

Once the new round of cuts takes effect, federal taxes will be lower than their average during the Eisenhower administration. How, then, can the government pay for Medicare [...]

Hacking for Columbine

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Tim Blair reports on the successful hacking of Michael Moore’s fictitional web site. Oh dear.
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Death Row on Gitmo?

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This doesn’t strike me as highly credible, but you can make up your own mind:

THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber.
Perhaps there are plans for military tribunals, some of which could result in death penalties, but there’s an obvious attempt at [...]