Google, Yahoo......Bye, Bye

I've reset my browser preferences and yanked Google and Yahoo from my tab bar. I understand their need and their desire to expand their business for their shareholders, but not at the expense of selling out human beings to oppressive governments. I also understand their argument for incrementalism, that eventually the internet will win out and everthing will be hunky-dory and the blood on their dividends will have faded away. But despite what most of us have been led to believe in this country, there are some things more sacred than cash. Liberty is one of them.

Web Firms Are Grilled on Dealings In China

From now on I'll use Momma.com until I find out something horrible about them too.

Four years later....

One for the "Duh" category if you haven't really been paying close attention to the War In Iraq, what will all those DVD rentals to watch and your favorite t.v. shows and all. I mean, who has time for news?

I hold these truths to be self-evident this week:

• That there will be no limit to the looting of the U.S. treasury for the next three years. Evidence: more tax cuts for the wealthy, more money for the Defense Department (who've done such a *wonderful* job handling the war) and Homeland Security (who've done an equally good job watching our borders), less money for Medicaid and education, the creation of health savings accounts (i.e. "your on your own, pal. Sorry 'bout the cancer."), and skyrocketing deficits to be paid by our children's children's children. So much for fiscal responsibility.
  
  
• The Emperor Wears No Clothes: just because he says spying on Americans without a warrant is legal, doesn't make it true. When he said, "I've earned some political capital and I intend to spend it" - he wasn't kidding. Executive hubris rules the day! To Congress and the Judiciary: You needn't show up for work anymore; the Executive and The Private Sector have got it all under control, thank you very much.
  
  
• Muslims have absolutely no sense of humor: and if any of you do, you forfeit it by the actions of the multitudes in the streets who are burning down buildings and threatening the lives of innocents over a god-damned cartoon. Nobody disputes your right to be offended, just your overrreaction to being offended. While we Americans may be the bully in the global school yard, you're like the spastic kid who eats paste and and smears excrement on the walls. Nobody understands you.