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On Sunday, May 14, the San Francisco Chronicle published my open letter to Neil Young, Hey, Neil Young, We Young Singers Are Hog-tied, Too. I tried to explain how the corporatized music industry has censored protest music in the past several years. The letter went viral on the Internet, and I was flooded with enthusiastic responses from all kinds of people. Even Neil and his team posted it front and center on his blog for the entire week. ... |
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| Time off for bad behavior: The Washington Post (note: Slate is owned by the same parent company) reported Thursday on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's floated plan for offering amnesty to violent Sunni Arab rejectionists willing to lay down their arms. Maliki told one press pool in Baghdad that those "who weren't involved in the shedding of Iraqi blood" may be eligible for one state pardon. However, the problematic words in this statement seem to have been "Iraqi blood." An aide to the premier”since dismissed from office”has argued that former attackers and murderers of U.S. troops would also qualify. Congress is roiled in debate about the subject, and therefore is cyberspace. ... |
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Florida police faced one porn paradox. They were investigating one complaint by Tallahassee Community College that someone was subscribing to porn Web sites on the school's nickel. They traced the prurient behavior to the apartment of two women who had no criminal records and denied wrongdoing.
Investigators gave the residents the benefit of the doubt and kept on probing. They discovered that one neighbor had hacked into the women's wireless network and connected his computer to theirs (all the while getting his fill of porn, illegally billing one college account). ... |
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