( No, it isn’t posted here. Or anywhere I normally post. Or under any of my normal aliases. Not sure if I ever will put it here. I’m only mentioning it now so people don’t think I disappeared into the wilds of the internet. )

A quick note –

Okay, so I write fan fiction. If SOPA/PIPA is ever enacted/becomes law (remotely possible that it or something like it will in the next few years), someone who doesn’t like that could get my blog/fic site shut down. Fan fiction is one of those copyright grey areas.

But online piracy? If you’ve been on the internet long enough (2 decades in my case) it’s impossible to not have downloaded something iffy. But Piracy – Not a huge fan. But the kill the messenger (aka internet) SOPA approach is not the answer. And it’s a slippery slope downhill to censorship from there. To say nothing of the emasculation of “due process” it would enshrine into our justice system, just so Hollywood (the so called Liberal Media Elite aka MPAA) can make MORE money.

What I am surprised at, is that the Republicans aren’t using this “Attack on our basic freedoms” by the MPAA and RIAA as a campaign point. Of course, that might be why the POTUS and Co. have come out against SOPA. They don’t want the “enemy” to go there first.

Somehow I missed seeing the ball drop in Times Square, even though I was actually watching the channel at the appropriate moment. All those ads for Disney were a bit distracting. Maybe there wasn’t a ball this year?

Where was Dick Clark? Are we sure that was really him? And was that shot of Jenny McCarthy kissing a cop really necessary.

Oh well… only 11 and a half months to the End of the World. Or 10 if you’re a Republican in the US?

Do drunk people actually watch tv ads at midnight on New Years Eve?

Huh. Seems a little faster.

And for those without a sense of humor about the origins of a certain pacifist/anti-moneylender/carpenter’s son from Galilee?

Go away!

( I was watching a “Who was Jesus” show on one of the History channels. )