In the Litigious Right-Wing Nutjob Department, Eschaton reports a lawsuit threat from Paul Krugman stalker Donald L. Luskin, partly for linking to his report of his stalking of Paul Krugman with the title "Diary of a Stalker," rather like I am doing right here.
Here is the original link.
Congressman Villanueva's reply letter to Microsoft
I offer this letter as an example of lucid thinking and clarity of expression on public policy issues relating to Microsoft.
It is not amazing that such thoughts are expressed or that they are expressed in Peru, but that they are expressed by a politician.
Compared to "read my lips" and the debased modes of expression, including ham-handed threats and blatant lying, typical of the Bush Administration and its lackeys, this kind of letter stands as exemplary.
Why don't we have this kind of thing in the United States in office? Why don't we insist on it?
Wacko Pat Robertson, not satisfied with his usual lunacy, demanded the State Department be nuked in his latest outburst of dementia. It goes to show the strength of Christian bigotry in this nation that he was not immediately frog-marched to a helicopter and transported to Guantanamo Bay, as anyone else but this Christian mullah would have been upon such a despicable statement.
Faced with a lawsuit from ICANN, VeriSign drops its SiteFinder "service."
This appears to moot two lawsuits filed against VeriSign by competing firms.