fading into ubiquity
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The World Beard and Moustache Championships 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska
i better start crafting a winner.
When television stations in the U.S. switched to digital broadcasting last Friday, viewers across the country documented the event and uploaded it to YouTube. There is something curiously surreal about these grainy videos of television screens switching to static, taped in people’s homes on cell phones and digital cameras, only to be posted on YouTube moments later. The novelty of their circulation itself - a historic transition from analog to digital television captured on digital video and then transmitted online - speaks to the media environment we inhabit with accidental precision.
a new day dims
Edmonton Journal: Mandatory drug sentences bill headed for approval
If the proposed legislation succeeds as anticipated, judges will be stripped of their discretion on whether or not to incarcerate drug traffickers, including offenders who grow and then sell as few as five marijuana plants.Thanks to the Liberals’ newfound appreciation for Tory Justice (TM), this passed today.
The bill was lambasted by 13 of the 16 witnesses who appeared before the House of Commons justice committee during public hearings this spring.
Two American critics warned minimum mandatory sentences for drug crimes have flooded U.S. prisons in the last 25 years, with a disproportionate effect on drug addicts, the poor, the young, blacks and other minorities.WHAT THE FUUUUUCCCKKKKKK!! This is so completely retarded.
