Techdirt editor and Floor64 founder, Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) on Ron Paul and Rand Paul’s “Internet Freedom” manifesto, which goes against what most “free Internet” advocates believe. Click thru to read it yourself. Read the MotherJones article on Oxitec’s GM mosquitoe release.
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12:25 pm
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12:34 pm
eya gang!
just out of the Royal Vancouver Hospital, the back surgery is going well!
eya T! great reporting, thank you a zillion times!
1:19 pm
Hi SJ!!
Glad to hear that your surgery went well. Best wishes for speedy recovery.
And thanks for the accolade
3:39 pm
heh!
i’d send a dozen roses if i could!
12:46 pm
audio sucks currently, great show tho!
12:51 pm
Good news on the surgery SJ, heal well!
1:40 pm
tanks Trapper!
not much pain at all this AM!
even sitting! double w00t!
1:23 pm
Maddow Blog @MaddowBlog
1:26 pm
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Judge who Helped Popularize the Term ‘Driving While Black’ Hearing Texas Voter-ID Case http://bit.ly/RPOOB4
1:35 pm
heh! been recovering for a week!
NO MEDS THIS AM CEPT ONE MINI TOKE OF BC BUD!
1:48 pm
glad to hear it!
3:28 pm
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high 5 bro!
3:41 pm
less than .03 grams!
9:47 pm
all natural!
12:54 am
10 PM here no heavy meds and a half joint so far!
11:41 am
There is nothing natural about ingesting smoke.
2:47 pm
Where in nature do you find animals purposely inhaling smoke? The natural occurrence is to move away from smoke.
1:37 pm
My morphine prescript was really welcome during recovery tho!
was in the hospital for a week!
1:41 pm
Hey “Sunshine Jim”! The way you put Sam on-the-spot and tried to guilt him into calling you is nothing less than rude. Your action shows a severe defect or deficit in character. I also have no doubt that your money making ideas will be pie in the sky, far out and just, plain terrible.
Sincerely, HC2012
1:49 pm
piss off. i think sammy needs some ideas, and sunny j will deliver.
3:34 pm
heh! where did that come from?
Now I am gonna guilt trip the lazy space case!
he was gonna get of easy before you kneejerk unloaded on me!
next time thimk before letting out the clutch on yer critical fingers!
Sam owes me i don’t owe San diddly!
2:45 pm
–IDEAS–
Sam Author’s Op-Ed’s for “Liberal” blogs like HoPo, FDL, MotherJones etc…
Create an informational hand bill or sticker graphic that we can print and distribute.
Best of all. One of the YouTube videos goes viral. Maybe his more prominently known, celebrity friends can contribute. If Janeane or David Cross could come on as a legit guest instead of it being a bit and say some extreme stuff instead of Sam trying to remind them that “hey I am funny too!”.
If MoonBat Jim has anything more plausible than that then by all means, SHARE!!!
3:37 pm
still no pain meds since last night!
3 discs, 17 stitches, still bl3eding, no biggie
Bgurl here to change the dressings twice a day
8:18 pm
Feel better, Sunshine Jim!
Just caught up with my podcasts and I share Sam’s paranoia about the mutant mosquitos – after all, all that Monsanto corn worked so well and stayed confined to its own acreage just like they said it would….er….
But seriously, the IM about Australia? Australia is the poster child for one of the most famous ecological disasters in recent history, the introduction of rabbits in 1859 by a gent who missed his hobby of shooting rabbits in jolly old England, so he imported 12 rabbits which, having no predators, “rapidly multiplied”. (‘Dya think?) The rabbits devastated the ecology, killing young trees and accelerating erosion. Hopefully the IMer was being ironic.
11:31 pm
I wanted to point to Rabbits in Australia as well, or cats or pigs. One only needs consider the plight of the Kakapo.
11:03 pm
I’m pretty sure they were being ironic! There’s a funny documentary about what a horrible idea it was to introduce cane toads to Australia to eat cane beetles. The Simpsons spoofed this in the episode on Australia where Bart destroys the environment of the country by introducing a bullfrog (though a koala gets revenge). In the same vein, if there is any chance at all of helping tiger mosquitoes to spread and invade the area, I would not risk wiping out the native mosquitoes–tiger mosquitoes are horrible, and active all day long!