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SOPA and PIPA are the effective equivalent of blowing up every road, bridge, and tunnel in New York to keep people from getting to one bootleg stand in Union Square — but leaving the stand itself alone.

CK’s comedy does the job of finger-placing our dirty, shameful thoughts. It doesn’t validate them, but it does recognize and identify them, and in their airing, we have to consider and deal with the lines that separate how we are expected to behave and think, and the shameful dirt of this world.

Again. You stated the problem as clearly as she tried to, repeatedly, in front of the committee. What makes perfect sense to logical people is unsurprisingly nonsensical to the idiots running the country.

People have suggested that there’s an anti-intellectual bias ingrained in the American psyche, but I don’t think that’s actually the problem. It’s the assumption that someone else will do the thinking for you that’s the real nasty, seedy little heart of the matter.

I really look forward to the gov’t expending taxpayer dollars it doesn’t have, and endless amounts of energy, chasing down ghosts and persecuting middlemen in defense of trillion-dollar interests. Because the sooner the US becomes the laughingstock of the western world, the sooner it’s likely to get its house in order and gag the busybodies, wingnuts, corporate interests and degenerate senators who are creating its current policies.

Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers - that’s the social graph.

Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving force behind a site like Facebook.