It's definitely the holiday season!
It's a good day to enjoy schadenfreude as we read the email exchange between slimy Republican Congressional aide Todd Shriber and some computer security dudes as Todd tries to hire some hackers to change his GPA! And upon request, sends them two photos of squirrels in his front yard, to prove he's not an FBI agent. Oh, happy holidays... our government is full of lying jackasses.
It's also a good day to watch Dick in a Box in which Justin Timberlake parodies himself.
But in more horrible news, we are still in an enormous scary war that looks to be growing.
Meanwhile. It was a bit stunning this morning to open my newspaper and see an article with blacked out words, sentences, and paragraphs. It's an article about the US and Iran. I hope other newspapers being censored by the government will start following this practice of publishing with the blackouts included. The thick black lines are very effective in conveying the violence done by the state to freedom of information.
I emailed that NYT article to some people in hopes of having it pop up on their front-page "most emailed" list, perhaps even above the articles about how there's a lot of baby boomers (this is news?), how pancakes are cool, combatting clutter, parenting, exercising, and kiddie therapy. If every glurge article forwarded to me were about the horrors this country is committing in the war then ... well... then I'd have some political email in my inbox other than the sometimes useful moveon.org spam.
We provided the following citations to the board to demonstrate that all of the material the White House objected to is already in the public domain. Unfortunately, to make sense of much of our Op-Ed article, readers will have to read the citations for themselves. (See links at left.)
It really makes me think about "difficult writing" and the baroque - here is a perfect example of how baroqueness, by putting truth in the corners, in the tips of fractal branchings, can get around authority & censorship.
holy fucking shit.
Posted by: minnie | December 22, 2006 at 11:29 AM
Fuck. Email the blacked-out letter to me, can we do spam-blogging visibility somehow?
Posted by: squid | December 22, 2006 at 08:16 PM