Isn't filing a forged document (and claiming it's real) a form of perjury?

The Constitution requires that the President have been born in the US (or born prior to the late 1700s.) That's above and beyond any citizenship requirement.

But Taitz & co are wrong -- in fact, let me be the first to allege this around here: THEY'RE DELIBERATELY LYING. It's a scam to separate rubes from their money.

In a couple decades, it'll be fun to interview former kids who came to these stories by reading/hearing these versions first.

It reminds me that my first exposure to Beowulf was John Gardner's Grendel.

On usenet's alt.slack, Rev. Unlcaimed Mysteries just posted:

So that's what Paula Abdul's up to next. I can see it now.

"I just don't feel the energy ... you're old and disabled ... wow, I hate to do this but DIE, DEFECTIVE! DIE!"

(Contestant is incinerated on stage.)

Does this mean that after thirteen years, the Government might finally get around to busting spammers?

Citizens of the US (and everywhere else) have their computers attacked daily by criminal gangs and botnets.

But up until now, Government has been shy about doing anything that might shine a light on a basic flaw in the way we do business. While record companies and the like are trying to bust people for trading copyrighted material, nobody seems to point out that us ordinary citizens don't have any rights when it comes to how OUR contact data is swapped around. Shouldn't we each get a royalty payment every time somebody sells our name, phone number or email address for money?

... but isn't it possible that this body was buried there by somebody else? Perhaps as a way to cover up a murder of a civilian?

Oh, and

@drsteevo

"INCOMPETENCE AT IT'S LOUDEST EXAMPLE!"?

I take it your doctorate is not in English. Or were you providing examples?

n/t

I misattributed. I hang my head in shame.

At first, I wondered if the Nobel people had been watching Beck & Limbaugh and did this just to piss them off.

A little later, I wondered if perhaps they'd watched B & L & the rest and, in overestimating those guy's influence, decided on this award NOW, because they don't want to award it posthumously.

Just wondering.

I was initially going to moan about the ridiculousness of forcing minors to sign "contracts," but then I realized what a teaching moment this could be.

This lets kids know that contracts are often not worth the paper they're printed on.

It'll help prepare them for the realities of the job market and life earning a paycheck.

... that's the line I was hoping for in Owens' acceptance speech.

... where he'll complain about immigration from Belize?

When literacy and inexpensive paper became widespread, I bet the professional scribes got upset, too.

Now everybody can produce recorded music! Sure, Sturgeon's Law still is in force, so at least 90% of it is crap. But even the crap is usually crap with a beat, and personal factors can make it quite endearing.

Which would you really rather listen to, a Duran Duran re-union record, or your daughter's excursion into making beats?

Or maybe a random Salon commenter can win your heart: http://www.soundclick.com/justjohn

But I don't expect to get rich doing it.

Any longtime Firefox user knows to have NoScript installed, so only the Flash that's actually wanted runs.

I use Firefox on my Asus e900 (which is far less power efficient than newer Asus models) under Linux to watch Hulu vids all the time. No huge problem.