Colbert did _exactly_ what many of us dream of doing. He showed up at the White House Press Correspondent’s Dinner and skewered everyone there. Apparently George and Laura Bush were not in good humor, and the audience didn’t care for the jokes either. But he’s a hero to the rest of us.
“Democratic Underground”:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1062760&mesg_id=1062760 has [...]

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So now we have a real problem with this “sex-for-votes scandal”:http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/28/prostitutes-six-members/, considering the location. What are we going to call it? Watergate-gate?

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I read a lot of liberal weblogs, but one I’ve never been able to take is the slashdot[1] of progressive commentary: DailyKos. It doesn’t have much to do with their positions, but their attitude and the collected attitude of the common-taters. It’s more of a _feeling_. Which I guess “other people have picked up on [...]

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In Internet parlance, “Net Neutrality” means the underlying infrastructure of the Internet doesn’t care where traffic is coming from or where it is going; it all gets routed from originating location to destination. It’s been a guiding principle of the Internet, but now it’s under threat.
TelCos want the right to prioritize some traffic over [...]

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The “BizRate Online Panel” — which I apparently joined years ago — just sent me an invitation to rate a few online businesses. In return, they’d give me a free trial to NetFlix.
_Woo._ A free trial to Netflix. You mean the same one they offer on their front page?

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