As much as Congress likes to raise a stink, Google and its counterparts will probably do a lot more at undoing censorship in China if they do business there, rather than "taking a stand for democracy" by not doing business there.

Cartoon Network has a new crop of shows, and I'm not very impressed with most of them. However, without any of the hype the other shows get, there is one that is truly excellent...

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I have no idea why I wanted to do that, but I like how it turned out.

Since my day job is building musical instruments, I go through various guitar-related message boards regularly looking for rumors and opinions on the stuff I work on. I only lurk, because I don't believe I'd ever be a decent contributing member to any of those boards, because of one topic that keeps coming up. It's...

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I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Here's mine...

Watching the [adult swim] shows "Perfect Hair Forever" and "12 Oz. Mouse" remind me of being the only sober person in a room full of stoned people. Part of me keeps thinking I should be having more fun than I am. Mostly though, I'm just annoyed by the stupidity.

However, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to make myself hate "Squidbillies."

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If all the people I see complaining about Pres. Bush had actually got off their butts and voted last election, he probably wouldn't be President right now.

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