Thought you fine people might find this interesting:

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/02/26/Comcast-FCC-Hearing-Strategy?TID=st092007ab

Some audience members appeared to sleep through the proceedings, according to photos taken during the hearing. Other applauded enthusiastically when Comcast executive vice president David L. Cohen delivered key points in his presentation.

A number of people in the audience wore yellow highlighter marking pens on their shirts or jackets; Karr said that was to identify them to Comcast employees coordinating the company's appearance at the event. Khoury acknowledged that Comcast coordinated the employees that it brought to the hearing.

The revelation that Comcast paid nonemployees to stand in line at the hearing comes against the backdrop of a bitter public relations war between Comcast and its critics, including the public interest groups Free Press and Public Knowledge.

Shaker, then East Cleveland, then Cleveland Heights.

Then San Francisco.

I was 3 when Kucinich was Mayor, but I know that the river caught fire in the 60s, a full decade before Kucinich was in office.

I drank at Chinese restaurants, of course, because you could get served a Mai Tai if you were 17. We used to get drunk at the Royal Dragon next to the old Centrum. Whenever someone's pet cat would go missing, the Royal Dragon was often eyed with suspicion. Later, as a Landmark employee, I got an insiders look at the Royal Dragon that would have made Upton Sinclair wince. Needless to say, I was glad when the state finally shut them down. By then I had graduated to the Grog Shop and La Cave du Vin.

I spent a good deal of time defending my city of birth (Rainbow Babies & Children) the other week when someone was trashing the city all the while praising its lavish, marble adorned Museum of Art (built by a consortium of powerful industrialists including Horace Kelley). Unfortunately, the cost was too low to captains of industry to think twice about abandoning the city on the lake, and now we're allowing them to do the same to our beautiful country en masse.

Automatic Teller Machine machine??

Ugh. That's almost as bad as personal identification number number.

Slow news day?

Sir, you are wrong. The status quo is wrong. And you and it are finished in American politics. No waiting, no brownies and cupcakes for ill-behaved children. Punishment now and in full.

That is the new paradigm.

Ever had a dog? Its a good metaphor for these ill-behaved Democrats.

If a dog pees on your rug, you need to discipline it right away. Barks at your neighbor? Immediate discipline. Tears up your pillow? Craps on your bed? Runs into the street?

All these things, if you show any hesitation, any doubt, if you are not swift, firm and fair in your punishment, leads to you having a dog with a behavior problem.

Just like these bums, Diane Feinstein (can you believe she might run for Governor? Can you think of a worse way to fail upwards?), Hoyer, Reid, Pelosi and the rest that we keep re-electing in SPITE of their repeated failures.

Its just like a dog that keeps peeing on your rug. If it gets so bad, eventually you have to put that kind of dog down.

Glenn Greenwald, and like minded individuals, have offered to be our Cesar Millan. Maybe the blue dogs will sense we are serious, but not without a smack on the snout.

burn.

*sigh..*

Was it the porn? It was the porn, wasn't it?

If I shit on the Eucharist and mail it to the Pope, I'm making a political statement. What does that have to do with science?

Where is the outrage for the scores of abused alter boys, the church cover-ups, and the systemic misogyny of Catholicism or Islam or Tibet or what have you?

The Eucharist is a cracker. The worst thing about me smearing my cum and shit and piss and vomit and blood over it, setting it on fire, fashioning a crusifix out of bacon and letting it rot then mailing it to the Pope is that I have wasted food and people are starving.

PS - free Palestine.

Amen.

I wish more people would be focused on FISA, impeachment and torture than the laughable fantasy of a Obama-Clinton ticket.