http://overground.blogspot.com Progressive-minded weblog devoted heavily to politics and media with some music and popular culture sprinkled throughout working on the assumption that anything that comes out of Washington or the mass media is bogus propaganda unless proven otherwise. Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:06:33 PDT en-us http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_06_22_overground_archive.html#105659138793931107 <blockquote>WASHINGTON &mdash; The embattled music industry disclosed aggressive plans Wednesday for an unprecedented escalation in its fight against Internet piracy, threatening to sue hundreds of individual computer users who illegally share music files http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_06_22_overground_archive.html#105658452546203330 I found this in the latest <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com"target="_blank">Rolling Stone</a>. It's not available on-line so I retyped a section from the print edition of their write-up on Field Day. This is absolutely outrageous...<br /> <br /><blo http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_06_15_overground_archive.html#200437117 Check out my new work-in-progress music site, <a href="http://www.blueeyedson.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">Blue Eyed Son.</a> http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_06_15_overground_archive.html#200437089 The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orin Hatch, came out against illegal downloading by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6241-2003Jun17.html?referrer=emailarticle"target="_blank">favoring the development of new technolog http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_06_15_overground_archive.html#200437071 <i>The Washington Post</i> released a lengthy investigative piece that discounts most of their original unquestioningly patriotic account of the trials of Pfc. Jessica Lynch...<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/politics/1 http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_06_08_overground_archive.html#200405410 Months have passed. No WMD. And to think they impeached Bill Clinton for lying about sex...<br /><br />But there's still time to get those WMD where they need to be...<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/2 http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_06_08_overground_archive.html#200405348 Apologies to my readership (all three of you) for the extended hiatus. Life circumstances (other duties, etc.) coupled with disgust and contempt for what constitutes our current state of affairs (culture, gov't, etc.) kept me off the blog for a while. Hop http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_05_18_overground_archive.html#200319037 You know the drill... it's "ORANGE" time again...<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20030520/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_al_qaida"target="_blank">Officials with the Department of Homeland Security sa http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_05_18_overground_archive.html#200310699 ...In an easily-led, narrow-minded, condescending yet ignorantly self-righteous kind of way.<br /><br /><blockquote>NEWS ALERT<br /><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=1&u=/ap/20030519/ap_on_go_pr_wh/fleischer_resigns"target= http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_05_11_overground_archive.html#200292308 Bob Burnett at Alternet.org has an interesting take on the Bushites' tax cuts for the rich and shameless. So what if the economy's funeral pyre will burn ever brighter. So what if social programs are destroyed. Let 'em eat rice cakes, so long as they keep http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_05_04_overground_archive.html#200253501 Why do they make it so easy?! <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030503/ap_on_re_us/bennett_gambling_2"target-"_blank">Oh, the morality</a>! http://overground.blogspot.com/archives/2003_05_04_overground_archive.html#200253492 This is priceless: <a href="rtsp://st21g1.services.att-idns.net/v1/494/1742/2597/dailyshow/stewart/jon_7131_300.rm"target="_blank">Bush vs. Bush</a>.