February 26, 2005


So Rolling Stone (which became so obviously a music industry PR vessel that I stopped reading it sometime during college—I swear I only know about this because of slashdot) has noticed that a bill championed by the elephant-mascotted people who run things now would make saying bad words way more costly than doing bad things.

If the bill passes the Senate, Bono saying "fucking brilliant" on the air would carry the exact same penalty as illegally testing pesticides on human subjects. And for the price of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl, you could cause the wrongful death of an elderly patient in a nursing home and still have enough money left to create dangerous mishaps at two nuclear reactors.

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The usual place alerts this space an uncommonly excellent headline: America's dumbest laws to be violated all summer long. "Two British students have researched America's stupidest laws and are spending this summer travelling from state to state, violating them." Apparently in the nearby town of Marlboro, MA, it's illegal to detonate a nuclear device within city limits, so hopefully that's not one of the laws they'll be trying to break.
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The satellite radio is playing me some amazingly obscure Frank Zappa.
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