That's what the broadcast license-renewal process has become: a rubber stamp procedure. The following are the words of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: [U]nder pressure from media conglomerates, previous commissions have eviscerated the renewal process. Now we have what big broadcasters lovingly call “postcard renewal” — the agency typically rubber-stamps an application…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPNWRti8CfY[/youtube]
Cartoons aren't always funny. Sometimes they make serious points more efficiently than a big page of prose. There's no better example than these cartoons from Cagle. This set is entitled "Latin America's View on Immigration."
I caught this on Andrew Sullivan's site, The Daily Dish. The premise? What if Mary Poppins was made into a horror film? Here's what: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic[/youtube]
Silly bureaucracy in action! An internationally renowned cyber-guru who often comes into the U.S. to train DoD, DoE, and other alphabet soupers was held for 4 hours by customs, and deported as he came in to speak at a Black Hat convention. His own report on the issue makes it…