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Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security
The
2003 Jefferson Muzzle
"winners" are out. This year's crop starts with John Ashcroft and the U.S. Congress, and works its way down through the school board that voted to put Harry Potter on the restricted shelf. Innovation in censorship deserves recognition, read and enjoy. And in other stupid news,
the winners of the
Stupid Security Competition
have been announced. I like that I'm being protected from tea. It makes me feel safe.
How about linking to awards from opinionjournal.com or nationalreview.com?? Oh, its because it doesn't fit with your political biases and would actually serve to get both sides of the story.
You could of linked to their awards just now. Browsing the front pages of those two sites, I see no awards. Could you find the links?
Fortunately, you are mistaken; the truth, however, is scarcely better.
Who said anything about crimes? I mean, a news organization would never keep government sponsored crimes quiet, would they?
People in the battlefield have things they can't report because it would endanger themselves and the troops they're with. That's nothing new. Soldiers often can't tell even their family exactly where they're going or what they'll be doing ahead of time.
well, in our government's defense (this time), those curtains were bought to hide the breasts simply to stop the press from acting like 5th graders trying to get politicians into a shot with the breast. if you see the actual setting, the statue would hardly be seen from a normal point of view, but photographers would go out of their way to include them in a shot.
mechanicos ergo cogito
A rant about it
The RAVE act basically means, if there are any drugs on your property, no matter whether they belong to someone else or whether you knew about it, are your responsibility, and your property may be forfeit and you can be subject to a ludicrous fine.
The full text of the law.
Don't forget that bottled water is no longer allowed in many clubs, and has apparently been classified by DEA as "drug paraphanelia" because it's possible to put odorless colorless drugs into bottled water. Someone please back me up with references, I don't have any offhand.
Huh? At least 60% of the "awards" are to liberal groups or individuals making asses of themselves. Such as throwing out right-wing newspapers on school campuses, or attacking a student's right of free speech because they said something religious. Yes the big awards go to the government, which happens to be Republican right now, but Democrats in power would get the big awards too.
In fact, it apparently was long a standard source of fun for photojournalists to try to get the bare breasts into the picture, often lowering the camera angle substantially to do so. The practice dates at least to Ed Meese's prounouncements on porn during the Reagan Administration. Apparently Ashcroft is a bit thin-skinned about this sort of thing.