Indianapolis, IN - Have you ever read something and said to yourself, "Oh how I wish I'd written that?"

Allow me to recommend this blog post by someone I've never heard of, but makes an incredible amount of sense.

The Scriptorium: jamie mason's blog - Why Peter Watts Got Boot-Fxxxed

Anyone really interested in figuring this mess out should give ( Read more... )

Indianapolis, IN - I got to meet and talk with Cory Doctorow at Penguicon a few years ago. At the time I knew there many things we would disagree on. His politics lean somewhere just to the left of Nancy Pelosi. Doctorow's stance on copyrights and freedom to share anything digital, music and movies included, are immature and unrealistic. But even ( Read more... )

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a Harvard Professor. But the other day he showed us that no matter what you have in the way of brains, it is still possible to be an idiot.

He was mistaken for a burglar when he and his driver forced open the stuck back door attempted to force a stuck front door at the front of his house. Someone witnessed this and called ( Read more... )

Durham, NC - From the national news briefs in today's Durham, NC Herald-Sun...

A 70 year old woman was arrested and suffered a broken nose at the hands of an Orem, UT police officer. Her crime: failing to properly maintain her lawn.
Two days after Independence Day, 70-year-old Betty Perry experienced an ordeal she said shouldn't be happening in ( Read more... )

A thoroughly pissed off Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered Paris Hilton and her attorneys back into court. It would appear Paris Hilton's transfer from a traditional lock up to house arrest in her multi-million home vexed him beyond belief. In his original order Judge Sauer specified no furlough, no work release, no house arrest and no electronic ( Read more... )

Lets see now...

• Last September Paris Hilton got DUI arrest. She was convicted
  
• She got stopped for driving under suspension three months later. She had to sign a piece of paper acknowledging the license suspension at that time.
  
• 30 days later she was arrested for driving under suspension again.
  
• Another trip to court with a cocky attitude and the ( Read more... )

One of the largest miscarriages of justice so far this decade was overturned in Connecticut. Superior Court Judge Hillary B. Strackbein found that the "expert" witness from the Norwich Police department may have "mislead" the jury. In setting aside the guilty verdict, Strackbein ruled that the witness the state presented as a computer expert, a ( Read more... )

Sarasota, FL - The case of Julie Amero has been near and dear to my heart since USA Today Columnist Andrew Kantor brought it to my attention. There are very few things that will get me into fighting mode faster then to see someone being bullied. That is especially true when that person is bullied by a bunch of government flunkies that are too ( Read more... )

Ft. Myers, FL - Julie Amero will be sentenced next week for exposing children in a classroom where she was substitute teaching to pornographic images. Under the law she could get up to 40 years in prison.

I'm sure that some of you out there are now cheering, thinking she deserves all that and more. But before you mentally hang Ms. Amero read ( Read more... )

Ft. Myers, FL - Let me introduce Julie Amero, a 40-year-old substitute teacher in Norwich, Conn. She is in very hot water because the computer in the class room she was assigned came with a scorching case of computer herpes. That particular brand of computer clap delivered a string of porno pop-ups. Each one she closed produced two more. Now Amero ( Read more... )