And Now the Government Comes After the Bloggers?

Publius' Forum ^ | 11/23/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

"Gubbmint isn't the solution," Ronald Reagan famously said. "Gubbmint is the problem!" Well, until Al Gore invented our wonderful Internet world, there were darn few ways we common citizens could highlight just what the "problem" of government was. But, happily, we bloggers have become the modern version of our Founders plying the pamphleteer's trade. Now, via the incredible world of blogging, we can spy a government abuse and cast the harsh light of public scrutiny upon it. And we can do it in the blink of an eye. All we need is our computers and a little Internet access.

But, now gubbmint is trying to find ways to make it harder for us to highlight their evil, wasteful, illegal ways. For now comes the Democrat Party of the State of Washington trying to reinvent bloggers as "lobbyists" so that we can be regulated out of existence.

Or, if they don't exactly want bloggers regulated out of existence, Democrats at least want to put bloggers in such a position that there are fewer of them because of gubbmint's onerous regulations....

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[Toki]

/bashes head in

Coming soon to you.

[ExGeeEye]

Re South Park: each episode is available for a couple of days after first airing, then goes into “the vault” for a bit before resurfacing a couple weeks later. IIRC the first “guinea pig plague” episode will become available this week but I'm waiting until next week so I can see them back-to-back. The election episode should come back the week after that. The “Musical” episode is “hidden” and the “Vampire” episode will go under soon.

No big conspiracy...just some sort of contract thing between Matt&Trey and Comedy Central.

[cynwoody]