The Strangest Online Political Challenges of 2007

destinyland writes "Blorgable has a list the year's ten strangest online political moments arguing that 2007 was the year digital identities started encroaching into the culture. While the U.S. Senate was busy fighting cartoon-related digital terrorism with 'The Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act of 2007,' Ann Coulter's web page ended up 'mistakenly' announcing her retirement after someone hacked it! But the unpredictable changes were sometimes deadly serious. Even the mainstream media noticed 'the ghosts of MySpace' — those U.S. soldiers whose web pages ultimately outlived them."

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Re:Fuck you, Boston

[tom's a-cold]

I know I'd feel safer if the Gay State wasn't part of the Union...

Why does this remind me of something in The Onion?

Safer from what? The risk of finding yourself 69-ing a gay Bostonian while you're drunk? Because if that's what it's about, your problem isn't gays, it's closets. Me, I like near SF and am a straight male. Gay men never try hitting on me: I'm probably too old and/or not good-looking enough. Or more likely, if you're not actively looking for something, you're not likely to find it. Gays don't make trouble for anyone-- it's just that some people find the need to make trouble for them. There's no rational motivation for that.

In Rome, men had sex with men for hundreds of years. But when the Christians got power, everything went down the shitter.