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Why yes, I have heard that goatse is now illegal in the United States. Except that it's not.

§ 2252C prevents "knowingly using a misleading domain name on the Internet with the intent to deceive a person into viewing material constituting obscenity". The first goatse project does not decieve anyone: I warn people in advance "you will see a ( Read more... )

I have vague memories of growing up in the late 70s and hearing the phrase "If you think America so bad why don't just you go live in (foreign country) or something?" used against critics of American politics and policy. Some consider Iraq to be this generation's Vietnam, and whether or not that's true I've noticed a resurgence in what I remember ( Read more... )

Reading this article and thinking how to answer his question helped me clarify what exactly the problem is with wiretapping criminals and terrorists without a court order:

The enemies of our government and the enemies of the persons in our government are not the same enemies.Our government should have the ability to surveil criminals and ( Read more... )

A while ago I mentioned my support for the Iranian holocaust cartoon contest. Apparently I wasn't alone: creepyanonymous pointed me to the Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoon Contest, whose gallery lists some promising entries. This comic also recently ran in US papers:


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Hamshahri, an Iranian newspaper, is attempting to question the legitimacy of offensive political speech by sponsoring a nationwide contest over who can create the most offensive holocaust cartoon.

I think this is pretty awesome. It's like the cast of The Aristocrats staged a coup in Iran and elected Abbie Hoffman president. This has the ( Read more... )

Adding some "fair and balanced" coverage to yesterday's post.


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I have a flurry of thoughts about this picture.


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