Good News, Bad News

Good News:

The FCC looks like it's willing to play a little hardball with the telecoms to ensure it has the authority to enforce Net Neutrality rules.  Reclassifying the ISPs as common carriers will go a long way toward ensuring that the Telecoms don't start playing poker with my packets.  Of course, it's all fun and games until some Randian idiot gets put in charge of the FCC and reverses everything because congress is too bought & paid for to legislate on the issue.  

Bad News: 

Oil, oil, everywhere.  The Deepwater Horizon well is still spewing enough oil into the Gulf of Mexico to make a Saudi Prince blush.  It reached the delta waters of the Mississipi in Louisiana this morning.  Oh, and the two most efficient ways of cleaning up the mess are burning it off (Carbon, carbon, everywhere) and dumping potentially toxic chemicals into it that really only turn on big blob of oil into several thousand trillion tiny blobs of oil.  Fantastic.  

Good News:

 The only thing worse than lying to yourself is lying to yourself and everyone around you and then moralizing about it.  Thankfully, George Alan Rekers doesn't get to do that anymore because the co-founder of the Family Research Council and all-around low-life gaybasher was caught returning from a vacation in Europe with a male escort.  As if the story could have ended any other way.  You can have all the male prostitutes you want, George, just stop trying to convince the world you aren't gay and that homosexuality is a disease, okay? 

Bad News:

Our national war on drugs is fucking insane.  I dare you to watch this video of a drug raid in Colombia, MO.  If you can watch the whole thing and not want to punch a wall you might be a sociopath.  A man's dog's are shot in his home by police serving a warrant in the middle of the night while his 7 year old son looks on.  They found a small amount of pot and then charged the father with child endangerment.  I'm pretty sure the guys shooting guns in the house are the endangering ones, but what do I know?  And this isn't an isolated case, by any means.  It's even happened to a completely innocent mayor.  

Good News:

To paraphrase Joe Biden, the iPad is a "big fucking deal." This isn't good news just because I'm a fan of Apple products.  This is good news because it means we might finally start realizing the potentials of computers to assist us on levels that go way beyond just e-mail, word processing, and Google searches.  The personal computer will never be the same again, and that's a good thing. 

Who The Heck Knows News:

The stock market tripped and fell on its face today.  No one really knows why.  It did get up and start walking again, but it may have given a few traders heart attacks and made a few of them obscenely rich in the process, so, you know, free market, bitchez.