As you know, I filed a counter-claim yesterday for copyright violations — if, indeed, the reason for my account suspension was some copyright violation (which it wasn’t). YouTube responded thus: Dear Jeff, We’ve reviewed your account and found that it’s in violation of our Terms of Use and cannot be re-instated. Please review our Terms of Use here: http://www.youtube.com/t/terms Please also take a look at our community guidelines that explain

When you type your url into the the address bar, you get a pop-up message asking, “Really? I mean, like, are you sure…?”

I mean, aren’t there targets other than race-baiting socialist charismats on whom we should be concentrating our derision? Like, for instance, street-theater capitalist charismats named David Blaine? To wit: How I do so miss the joyful innocence of a Doug Henning “Muppet Show” appearance. And gas lines. (h/t BL RAG)

Study here, alongside other surprising findings. Like, Alec Baldwin likes him some Democrats. And a bag of tasty cannola.

Of course there isn’t. Because recall, in today’s linguistic environment, the code is in the eye of the beholder / receiver — and can be either conveniently divorced from the intent of the encoder, or else attributed to conscious or unconscious attitudes the encoder is said to hold (in this case, the “proof” being that McCain and Palin are Republicans, and so are naturally inveterate racists). Hence, Lewis Diuguid, Kansas

No, really. They’ve done studies.

Writes Clarice Feldman, “evidence shows ACORN has committed the predicate crimes that would allow the government to prosecute them under the racketeering statute”: There was a rumor circulating last week that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in Chicago was heading up a team looking into RICO prosecutions of ACORN, but it appears to have been wishful thinking. But now AP is reporting that two senior officials with the FBI are looking

Interesting findings on voter registration from the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance — findings that suggest that, in many ways, democratic concerns are only truly being targeted in those states “in play,” turning national elections into a series of selective regional registration wars: Voter registration stagnated or declined in many of the states that have not been intensely contested in the presidential election. Thirteen of the thirty-three

With a measured equanimity, Roger Simon pans both W. and An American Carol. From “Political Movies: It’s the Quality, Stupid”: Hollywood and others have made numerous political films that were critical and commercial successes from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Judgment at Nuremberg to Battle of Algiers and Z. The Lives of Others — the 2007 Oscar winner for best foreign language film about life in East Germany under