* So Wikipedia has gone dark today. It’s because they’re protesting SOPA which is… I dunno, some sort of internet bill that people think is too obtrusive because it… well, I haven’t heard a succinct explanation yet. I assume it’s pretty stupid because politicians came up with it, but I don’t know the details. I guess I could look it up… oh wait, Wikipedia isn’t working today. Now where am I supposed to look up obscure things about TV shows from my youth?
Jonah Goldberg has a great idea: Spend the day making stuff up. No one will be able to disprove you.
* Newt built a little momentum from slapping down Obama as the “food stamp president”, but it still isn’t going to happen. Intrade has Romney at 91.2% chance of being the nominee, and at this point it doesn’t matter what cool line someone can come up with; the only way Romney could be stopped is to have some sort of epic stumble heretofore unknown. Like video of him running over a poor person in a limousine while laughing… but Romney has been very careful never to let that be videotaped.
Plus, I just don’t trust Newt. One day he’s an awesome conservative, the next day he’s worried Paul Ryan’s necessary budget plan is too harsh and mean. And then he’s throwing red meat to the right just before attacking capitalism in the form of the investment firm Romney worked for. I like one Newt, but I’m scared of the other. Can’t elect Newt unless we know which one we’ll get.
* How do you know you’re super radical fringe? Even Nancy Pelosi is trying to distance herself from you. Yes, suddenly Democrats are realizing that maybe a bunch of violent, incoherent hippies is not the path to reelection. Still, they keep Nancy Pelosi around, which means they haven’t quite figured out how to become appealing to the general public.
* Wisdom of the Day from M:
If you take the word “spatula” out of the dictionary it’s just a list of things that aren’t spatulas.
* Man, I’m just out of stuff to say today. Stupid news; be more interesting.
“Spend the day making stuff up.”
That’s what Wikipedia is for.
Whoa, very little outrage over an egregious assault on the First Amendment. If SOPA stood for “Stop Our Pistols Act,” spleens would be vented. Lots of spleens. This proves that guns are mightier than pens, or even interwebs.
I guess I can live with that.
How about this for stupid… President Obama is going to visit Disney World on Thursday. He will be in Orlando to promote tourism… by… causing parts of the park to be closed and off limits to…. Tourists. Genius…
Yeesh. Ok, so all-link causes comment sputterage. Here’s a better format:
Succinct.
Longer, but easy even for me to understand.
A good idea for a better protest.
I often spend my days making stuff up. Now, if you’d excuse me, I have to dig out of a bunch of global warming just to get at my wood pile.
So…..
You’ve gone from trying to get Jonah Goldberg’s job to letting him do your job?
Sigh. It’s always a little sad when dreams die.
Just don’t let Buttercup see this post.
Newt suffers the same malady as that Dr. Jekyl fellow… Doctor Reagan and Mr. Pelosi.
Hey! What happened to wikipedia? I went to lookup wikipedia, and its not there!
Since no one can disprove you, I’m going to go ahead and assume you made up most everything in this post.
Romney, Gingrich, Paul. It’s like choosing between a firing squad, the electric chair or the gallows. Or a lethal injection of HIV if you know the joke I’m referring to.
The Google logo today is a hot, naked woman! Really! Go check it out now!
What? You just get a black bar? Really?
They must be censoring your interwebs! Damn Gub’ment!
Wikipedia isn’t completely down. I was able to load an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA
I would call this O.W.S. – Occupy Wikipedia’s Site, but there’s no hippie stench with the blackout, so…no.
Also – blackout? RAAAAAACCIST!!!!!!
Newton and momentum.
That’s a good one, Frank.
wikipedia is down. of much more importance, so is daybydaycartoon.com
Wikipedia is down, but uncyclopeida is working. They basicly have the same information.
Wikipedia is not down. But as is often the case with lefties, they much prefer form over function, so they’re pretending it is down. Lemme ‘splain: Even while I’m against this SOPA thing it still brings me great pleasure to let you know the kids at Wikipedia either don’t know how to really black out a site, or didn’t care to do the heavy lifting. “Need” something on Wikipedia today? Fine. Turn off javascript and reload the page. There you go!
I must plead that I kinda discovered this accidently – I forgot today was blackout day, hit a wikilink, noticed the actual page loaded first before being blacked out, and thought “ah-HA!” Killed javascript, hit F5, – well now… That was hardly even a hiccup, was it?
@Hunter: GEEK alert!
“I assume it’s pretty stupid because politicians came up with it.”
They have been passing laws for 225 years and there are people out there complaining about a “Do-Nothing” Congress. The way I look at it is that you haven’t got it right in the last 225 years why should we elect you again?