This rules... Heavily armed police busting Christmas Carolers.

NYT comic strip on the copyright police

] With Willie Brown finally leaving his gold (plated),
] diamond-encrusted throne, there has been no shortage of
] hats thrown into the mayoral ring. San Francisco politics
] are now a microcosm of California's own, greater
] gubernatorial "challenges." Rather than confuse
] you with endorsements, position papers and other outmoded
] means of political influence, we've decided to get
] to the bottom of the only question that matters: Is a
] particular candidate human or an insidious replicant,
] possessed of physical strength and computational
] abilities far exceeding our own, but lacking empathy and
] possibly even bent on our destruction as a species?
]
] The only reliable method that we know of for sniffing out
] replicants is the Voight-Kampff Test, created by Phillip
] K. Dick in his book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
] and later used by Harrison Ford's character,
] Deckard, in the film Blade Runner.

Issuing the Voight-Kampff Test to San Francisco Mayoral Candidates

] Fifteen sites are thought to be in breach of the US
] Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and are said by
] Sharman Networks to be running unauthorised copies of its
] Kazaa P2P software.

This story is a little jumbled... The RIAA is mentioned repeatedly, but I don't see any relationship that they have to this. Google got DMCAed by Kazaa for linking to sites that distribute their software without their permission.

vnunet.com: Google DMCAed by Kazaa

] A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday by three
] residents seeking to return a 5,300-pound Ten
] Commandments monument to the lobby of the Alabama
] Judicial building.
]
] U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson said removal of the
] monument did not unconstitutionally establish a religion
] of non-theistic beliefs, as the residents claimed.

I can't beleive they actually tried that...

CNN.com - New Ten Commandments suit dismissed - Sep. 5, 2003

John Ashcroft's Patriot Act Summer Tour

Summer Tour 8/27/03

Here it is....

Burningman Bingo

] Dockers recently came out with a new brand of pants, the
] Go Khakis, which promise to keep your legs stain-free
] using revolutionary nanotechnology.
]
] We couldn't help thinking that Dockers might be using the
] word "nanotechnology" more for marketing muscle than for
] true scientific purposes, so we called its customer
] service line to ask a few pointed questions. Here's a
] slice of the conversation.

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!

CNN.com - Little robots in your pants - Jul. 18, 2003

Bullshit Bingo strikes back.

Hipster Bingo

] A couple of weeks ago you mentioned Microsoft's
] FreedomToInnovate.com and the availability of T-Shirts.
] Intrigued, I had to check them out. The shirts say
] "Microsoft" over the front left breast and on the back is
] a rather uninspired logo of an American flag with the
] union portion of the flag replaced with a lame
] sub-PowerPoint-clipart-grade computer terminal graphic.
] The text reads "Proud to Support Microsoft's Freedom to
] Innovate / Sign up at
] www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnovate"

Politech: Microsoft's 'Freedom to Innovate' campaign

"Iraq has a new regime, and that regime is love, baby" "These arms are fo' huggin"

Operation:Iraqi mackin'