YouTube apparently doesn't believe that independent musician Heather Dale actually owns the rights to her own music:

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Back in 2008, too-big-to-fail banking/insurance conglomerate AIG was pretty much utterly fucked. The housing bubble had imploded, their credit default swaps scheme was coming apart at the seams, and at one point they were bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars A DAY in losses as all their risks came home to roost simultaneously. Lehman Brothers ( Read more... )

So.

The spiff new paratransit control software that is eliminating my job was supposed to go live at all carriers...tomorrow, 6/1. As of yesterday afternoon that was the fact and that was the plan. We've been doing training sessions with the drivers to familiarize them with the new hardware they'll be using in lieu of a paper manifest and with the ( Read more... )

Via Smart Bitches Trashy Books:

Shorter Brevard County Library Director Cathy Schweinsberg: "We pulled all our copies of Fifty Shades of Twilight Fanfic With the Serial Numbers Filed Off because we read somewhere that it was called mommy porn and we absolutely do not purchase or shelve porn in our libraries. Please ignore all the other sexually ( Read more... )

Okay, so ( Read more... )

The only good thing about this bullshit is that it a) Obama has indicated that he's going to veto the living holy fuck out of it and b) I doubt it has the votes to override that veto. Otherwise...? The unmitigated cockbitery that got this shit voted on a day early is another reason to send every single legislator who voted for it home with a pink ( Read more... )

'WHY AREN'T THE LIBERAL MEDIA/BLOGGERS WRITING ABOUT THE MURDER OF KALA GOLDEN LIKE THEY DID ABOUT THE MURDER OF TRAYVON MARTIN ( Read more... )

This is CNN's article about the on-going trial of Anders Behring Breivik:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/19/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/index.html

..in which is written:

He used the video game "Modern Warfare 2" as training for his ( Read more... )

http://gamepolitics.com/2012/03/21/eca-action-alert-help-fight-039video-game-health-labeling-act-2012039

The Entertainment Consumer Association (ECA) has issued an action alert, a call to arms for gamers ( Read more... )

Who the fuck thought this was a good idea? Good enough to editorially greenlight?

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/3687818.html

Spoilery Quotes of Summation:

From: [personal profile] michael_ellis_day ( Read more... )