Remember When We Didn't Live in a Banana Republic?

Thank you, Sy Hersh.

Homeland Security Wants TRON

Just when I thought the Bush administration couldn't do anything more stupid, I'm surprised anew.

Homeland Security Classified The 1982 Movie Tron 'Sensitive'.

Reports are emerging from members of the movie industry that the Department of Homeland Security has designated the 1982 film TRON as "sensitive", and ordered Walt Disney Studios to turn over all copies of the film in its posession. Retailers are also receiving notices to remove all copies of the film from stock shelves and turn them over to Federal officials. The reports have industry insiders bewildered and outraged.

What the hell?

Fun With Bush

I'm listening to the NPR coverage of President Bush's State of the Union address last night: it's much more fun to listen to at double speed. He's no where near as annoying when he sounds more like Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks.

And it won't take anywhere near as long to listen to the damned thing with all the applause breaks.

Secretive US Government? Where did you get that idea...

Your tax dollars at work:

Bush Admin Makes White House Visitor Records Disappear
By Paul Kiel - January 5, 2007, 4:43 PM

What do you do when there are public records showing the details of visits by a corrupt lobbyist and his associates? If you're the Bush White House, you do what you do best: make them disappear!

Full article

And following that link, you can follow another link to see all of the once public information that's now blocked and the reasons (judge how spurious yourself).

(And yes, I did get a word of the day calendar, why do you ask?)