Bring on the Singularity!

Every once in a very great while I read about something that someone in Congress is doing that isn't designed to end the Internet or send us all back to the Dark Ages.  It's rare, but it happens.  

Such is the case with a new bill introduced in the Senate and the House (and it's got bipartisan sponsership, fancy that!) which would regulate the amount of time govenerment sponsored peer-reviewed research paper (ie, your tax dollars paid for the lab mice) could spend behind the paywall of a science publication.  

Which really makes you wonder why the hell they were allowing publishers to make money off of research we already paid for in the first place, but it's still worth correcting.

So my guess is that it will never pass and some Republican will spend an hour of the House of Representatives' time railing against Marxist nature of the bill.