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The MPAA: coming soon to a computer near you. I would strongly advise anyone reading this to avoid the website MiiVi.com at all costs, unless you want Media Defender illegally poking around on your hard drive. Yikes.

Here is lesson one in why hosting random people's blogs on your political website isn't a great idea if you're running for president -- because semi-literate ramblings about Bill Richardson wanting wolves to eat children will have the words "blog.johnedwards.com" attached to them.

Nothing has been done to protect our children in New Mexico and if Bill Richardson is president I am sure he will continue support coyotes attacking kids in New Jersey, alligators killing children in Florida, mountain lions stalking and attacking children Arizona, not to mention wolves stalking children in every state they are soon to be released in...If Bill Richardson is elected president or even vice president I am sure he will work to make your neighborhood save for dangerous predators. His statements, appointments to New Mexico Game and Fish, and actions make it clear that as the safety of our children is not important to him; dangerous habituated wolves are..If you think this sounds like Jurassic Park or the Twilight Zone living in here is.

And when someone calls her a troll, her response is brilliant:

I have lots of advanced degrees too. Big deal. The issue is rural America is being forced to live with wolves that are habituated and endangering our children. Poor people should not have to live this becuase they are poor. I move here to this beautiful area as a telecommute worker. THat being said studying what other pro wolf writer and biologis say about wolves is not unterstanding wolves or living with them. These wolves are not what I grew up with in canada. You should read up about wolves in russia a new book and really learn about wolves...there are otehr books too. Even Dr Mech talks abotu wovles wiping out species of snowshoe hair and deer on Elsner Island. Children are more important that wolves.

You've gotta love the "I have lots of advanced degrees" response -- I wonder if her thesis work involved unterstanding abotu wovles? When asked for further clarification, she replied:

Fact: Defenders signs up to compensate they claim full market value for confirmed wolf kills

Lies: Defenders has failed to pay. When they have paid it was less than market value. Horse owners should know that horses in defenders eyes are only worth a capped vaulue of $2000.

Your dogs being attacked in your front yard and ripped apart in front of your kids - free killing enjoyment for the wolves.

Defenders takes in thousands of dollars in donations promising to compesate and claiming full market value. No so. Stop Supporting these Crooks.

Plus how to you compensate for my child not being able to walk safetly to school or home?

That's a very good question -- how TO you compensate for something like that? I'm glad John Edwards is worried about my ability to walk safetly. Oh, wait, you mean this woman actually has no ties to the Edwards campaign and is posting this same story on lots of right-wing blogs too? Glad to know the Edwards moderators are paying attention.

Look, I know these are mostly just typos, and despite my ignorance of the issue at hand, I'm sure it is a very important election-deciding litmus test for tens of people in rural New Mexico. But when I see a lede that says "The official John Edwards blog has a great new message about Bill Richardson that will surely be offensive to Democrat primary voters," I assume that the writer has actual ties to the Edwards campaign. In fact, my initial thought was, "Didn't they hire that chick from Pandagon? Has she lost her mind?" But no, the website is apparently set up similarly to Kos. And if that site isn't enough of a clusterfuck to turn you off to the idea of sponsoring hundreds of random liberal loonies, I don't know what would be. This is the sort of thing that makes me cringe, because apparently whoever is running their web campaign is at about the same level as the person on the Obama campaign who thought Obama techno ringtones would be a killer strategy. Yikes. I probably can't find campaign work because I just said "clusterfuck", right?

Heh. Fhqwhgads.

The Lost boards on TWoP make my brain hurt. There are some people who have really amazing, insightful things to say. Then there are people that, I swear, have never watched the show before and say things that just don't make any sense. (Why on EARTH would you think that little girl Annie is the same person as Danielle? Also, Kate's stepfather WAS her father!) And then there are people who just refuse to read the thread before they post. (Hey, do you think they might be pirates? x1000) However, they are relatively free of squee, at least on the main episode thread, and I thoroughly appreciate that. I guess they're the best of what's out there. And, seriously, they're probably the best forum on the site. God knows nothing interesting gets said about Grey's Anatomy except "OHMIGOD GIZZIE BLECH I HATE YOU SHONDA!" But, really, that's pretty much the extent of what you can say about that show. (I kinda like Gizzie.)

You know how I always complain about how reading the internet makes me feel old? Well, I just got junk mail from Time magazine offering me the senior citizen's rate. NOW I feel old.

What I learned last night on ohnotheydidnt: D-list celebrities are a million times cooler than B+-list celebrities. Case in point: Shanna Moakler has a spot-on sense of vengeance, and Brody Jenner is the nicest guy in Hollywood. Who are these people, you ask? Exactly.

That'll learn me to open the TWoP homepage when there are shows from last week I haven't watched yet and don't want to be spoiled for. :(

To save others from the same fate -- do NOT go to TWoP if you haven't watched last week's Veronica Mars yet. Huge spoiler on front page. Huge. And now I'm depressed.

Man, I totally forgot about Hopkin Green Frog. That's a blast from the past.

I'm listening to Last.fm radio. Elvis singing "In the Ghetto" just came on my "neighbor radio" channel. What?

Today's favorite nerd quote, re: the Mac version of TiVo to Go, from The Unofficial Apple Weblog:

"Sure, it was probably a painstaking and grueling process to build a Mac OS X client, and it's even likely that many Bothans died to bring us this software."

I will give 1000 dork points to whoever can name the character who said that line.

Happy Macworld, everybody. Do you think we're getting a phone?

ETA: iPHONE!!! iTV!!! STOCK UP 3 POINTS!!! YAAAAAAY!