VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

I have been had. I am furious, but that’s nothing next to what I am fully expecting to receive from friends, family, and professional colleagues. ARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Please disregard any invitation from Quechup - from me or anyone else.
I was invited to this networking site by a friend. You can see on the right-hand menu that [...]

I’ve just noticed the “aboutus.org” wiki. It looks as though they are trying to put together information on every domain.

AboutUs is a fully editable wiki, a type of Web site, that has been prepopulated with information about several million websites. Enter a domain name in the search box (for example: “Yahoo.com” or “AboutUs.org”) and see [...]

NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional
Judge orders immediate halt to program
YES! Finally!
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.
U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, which she says violates the [...]

NSA Telephone Monitoring - an animated editorial cartoon by Walt Handelsman (to the tune of “I Just Called to Say I Love You”)
(thanks Aunt Elaine)

The House will vote once again this week to hand the Arctic Refuge over to Big Oil.
Tell your Representative to vote NO!
(League of Conservation Voters)
Say NO to Drilling in the Arctic Refuge Before It’s Too Late – The House Votes Tomorrow
(Save Our Environment.org)
Block Bush’s Radical-Right Judges
(Act for Change)
Act now to stop phone companies from abusing [...]

I somehow made it all the way through the State of the Union address last night. Much as I disagree with the Bush administration, I even found him unusually appealing.
I actually had the thought, “Well, maybe most of this administration’s ugliness is Cheney. Maybe Bush means some of what he is saying here.” I [...]

Army Recruiting Upsets Teen’s Mom
Darla Swift, Cherokee County, said a stranger called her house a few weeks ago asking for her 16-year-old daughter.
“The first thing was, is Robin there? Didn’t even include her last name, it was very casual, and I really thought it was one of the boys who call occasionally,” Swift said. “So [...]