I don't see what effect this will have. Most Americans will never hear about this, because their newspapers and their cable networks won't tell them about it and they barely even know there's any alternatives out here. Not like they give a sh_t about this stuff anyway -- they've got more important things to discuss, like the death of Whitney Houston.

"Waiting?" You must not have seen the dreck HuskersLoveBo has been writing.

If he "can't" win again, why the hell is his approval rating still at 48 percent?

MovieBob could carry on an actual debate, but he did so with a condescending "you poor fools will never understand how wrong you are" sneer. His being coherent didn't make him any less of an @$$hole than the trolls we get now.

You rarely call anyone racist, but you have no trouble at all spewing epithets like "draft-dodging drug addict" at the drop of a hat.

In which case my question becomes "What in the f_ck was he doing drinking martinis with Chris Dodd?!"

Exactly. Most of the stuff I've downloaded can be chalked up to two reasons:

1. I didn't want to bother with running out and blowing money on a USB turntable to digitize my vinyl just so I could play all my music in the car.
2. The download was of something that's been out of print for years and that I couldn't find through any other channels.

I think that's a significant subset of people who use online file-sharing -- the kind who say "I already own this stuff" or "I WANT to own this, but I can't freaking find it anywhere else."

Or the two Joes.

I think I've seen that movie about four times. I don't care how campy some people may think it is -- you can't go wrong with Roddy McDowall in the cast, Richard Matheson writing the screenplay (from his own novel), and Brian Hodgson and Delia "Theme from Doctor Who" Derbyshire providing the music, sound effects, and creepy ambient noises.

Of course it's not funny -- it's WIT, you nekulturny f__k. Wit doesn't have to be funny, it just has to earn approval.

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