Thursday, March 21, 2002

H.R. 2356. H.R. 2356, the "Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill", passed the senate yesterday by a vote of 60 to 40, just barely enough to stop the republican fillibuster. Bush has said that he intends to sign it into law. Efforts are already underway to challenge it in the courts. The first amendment has been seriously compromised. Every representative and senator who voted for this abomination is guilty of felony Bill of Rights violation. [End the War on Freedom] This gives a huge advantage to incumbents, but also it means that basically the only people allowed to distribute information about candidates will be the media. Of course the people in the media who were covering this bill and writing editorials certainly knew that. Given the media's overwhelming liberal bias, this will harm those politicians who are (or more likely, pretend to be) conservative. comment () trackback ()  9:17:28 AM     Apple adds minimal PDA functionality to iPod [PDABuzz.com] I expect there will be a great deal of hype over this, but really this isn't a big deal. Apple is just following the example of some clever hackers, and the "PDA functionality" is so minimal, it doesn't even qualify as a PDA. It's more like the Franklin Rexx, or one of the Casio pocket organizers from the late 1980's. comment () trackback ()  9:05:22 AM

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