There’s a reason why most Republican wingnuts don’t venture outside of the safe confines of Fox “News” or other venues where they won’t have to face actual, reality-based information and questions from outside of their comfortable, fact-free bubble.
My conversation on air Thursday with RW “voter fraud” fraudster, commie-hunter, and fact-challenged Fox fave David Horowitz illustrated [...] … Read More
GOP ‘Voter Fraud’ Fraudster David Horowitz Falls Apart On Air When Questioned…By Me
The Troll vs. the State
Profile of the day: Gawker’s Adrian Chen
hangs out with Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, a media manipulator,
prison-bound hacker, and ;”artisanal troll.” There “will always
be terrible people,” Chen concludes,
and out of all of the terrible people on the
internet Auernheimer is one of the best. The pureness of his
awfulness-for-awfulness’ sake is something to marvel at. When the
law came for him he didn’t suddenly pretend to see the light, he
doubled-down and sent a sprawling, arrogant email to the Assistant
DA signed
“hugs and courage to you”. Auernheimer can be a bully and a racist
but like
many trolls he exposes hypocrisies and injustices through his
provocation. In his case, he has forced us to put up or shut up
when it comes to freedom of speech on the internet.
Because in the end, Auernheimer’s case is about free speech. He
faces ten years in prison for using information accidentally made
publicly available by AT&T to embarrass it. Nothing was harmed
but a giant corporation’s reputation….No doubt the fact that he
was a dick about it—that he has made a career of being a
dick about it—has a lot to do with the fact he’s going to prison.
But if being a dick on the internet was a crime we’d all be headed
for the electric chair. Auernheimer plans to appeal his conviction,
and when he does it will hopefully help clear up the U.S.’s
outdated and vague computer crime laws, which lead to ridiculous
penalties like his.
Europe’s Austerity Madness
So much for complacency. Just a few days ago, the conventional wisdom was that Europe finally had things under control. … Read More
I Didn’t Know That: Beating a Lie Detector Test
http://www.youtube.com/v/JcDr7O-Wmuk?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Continued here:
