The Giant Fighting Robot Report

I am dubious. (I am metal.) I am stainless. I am milk in your plastic.

Friday, July 06, 2007

Does anyone else find this disturbing?

Item the first:
Robert Murdoch is going to buy the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal. Now granted, the opinion section of that paper has always been batshit insane, but now the rest of it is going to match.

Item the second:
The FTC has decided to abandon Net Neutrality. Now granted, there may still be time to save the Internet as we know it, but it's not looking as good as I thought it might.

So the future looks like it's going to look more and more like Fox News. (Though if you blank out the logos in the bottom I usually cannot tell the difference between Fox and CNN right now.)

These two events are bad enough, but combining them in one day seems like a horrible idea. Not that has ever stopped anything from happening before.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Special Comment

There have been two massive losses to the blogging world in the last month.

Steve Gilliard passed away on June 2nd, and I'm still reminded of the loss every time I look at the linkbar in my browser. This week I find that Jim Capozzola, caretaker of Mildred and the proprietor of the eponymous Rittenhouse Review has also left us as well.

How I wish both of them were around to have seen this, the latest Special Comment from Kieth Olbermann:
In that moment, Mr. Bush, you broke that fundamental compact between yourself and the majority of this nation’s citizens — the ones who did not cast votes for you.

In that moment, Mr. Bush, you ceased to be the President of the United States.

In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President... of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party.

Read all the way to the end, it's well worth your time.

Things have been extraordinarily weird for me personally for a while, but they may be getting better towards the middle of the month. In the meanwhile, enjoy today's Achewood—we must make this vision a reality.