Does A Cardboard Bear Shit In The Woods
Via The Skwib.

Any other news network using a fake bear would seem absurd. On Fox though, it seems somehow appropriate.

That’ll Be 23,148,855,308,184,500 Dollars
Yikes!

A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.

Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning US$23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).

Psst, buddy. Here in Ontario you can get smokes for 16 bucks a carton on most reserves.

We Can Haz Our Airwaves Back
Here’s a question for anyone more familiar with this issue than I am. According to this article in The Tyee, in the very near future corporate broadcasters will no longer be using the public airwaves for their broadcasts. Does this mean the public can start using them? In other words, would I be able to set up my own tv transmitter and start broadcasting a signal once corporations stop monopolizing our public airwaves?

Rights For Me But None For Thee
Accidental Deliberations nails Levant in the nads.

But naturally, Levant’s concern about the dangers of unfettered government power seems to end at exactly the point where he ceases to perceive any potential for it to be directed against him personally. When it comes to somebody who he figures he can safely label as “other”, Levant goes several steps further than the Cons’ apparent desire to start moving back toward capital punishment. Indeed, he’s ready to start lumping together a group of sub-people who in his view shouldn’t be protected by any principle of law (including any due process to determine whether they actually fall into the categories to which Levant is so eager to assign them).

So summary execution? Unbridled mercenary vigilantism? All fine for Levant - as long as the victim can be labeled as a “pirate”. Or, by Levant’s own connection, a “terrorist”.

This is precisely why nobody should take Levant’s free speech crusade seriously. He isn’t a defender of rights and freedoms but merely a snake oil salesman looking to make a quick buck for himself.