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02.02.07 by Widge @ 12:37 am
Read the whole thing, including the links. Yes, it's about the whole Aqua Teen idiocy. A couple of points to make: 5. The FCC can't pull a private cable network's license, Mayor Hyperbole McFuckwit. You shouldn't have told him that, amigo. Now he's going to push for some way of making that reality. Government folks want absolute power like Stephen Colbert wants to control reality via Wikipedia. Sidebar: ten years ago we would have truly thought that "Wikipedia" was some kind of silly-named device used to take over/destroy the world. Omegahedron, anyone? And from the ToonZone editorial he links to: The government's handling of this situation has proven incompetent at best. Why am I a borderline anarchist? Because in this world, that statement is applicable every single day. Think about it. When's the last time you looked at something the government did and went, "Hey, you know what? Wow. I wouldn't have changed a single thing about that. Goddamn, that was slick." Instead, that same line can be used for: border security, airport security, port security, the war in Iraq, Katrina, the national budget, respect for the Constitution especially free speech, and on and on and on. Go ahead, try it: think of something, and that line just fits doesn't it? We need that line on billboards. Also, people keep talking about the other cities in which the campaign was based and how only Boston freaked, but I wonder how many people actually called in a freakout? I think–and this is based on the normal amount of hysteria that's in the air (liquids on planes, anyone?)–that the other cities were a phone call away from doing the same thing. Taggification: aqua-teen-hunger-force, boston, dogs-and-cats-living-together, mass-hysteria, peter-berdovsky, terrorism, YGAW Filed under: Ranting
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