Last notes

• I realize I haven't said anything about the big showdown debate from the French election last night. Eh, I'll talk about it later. If you speak French, you can watch it here. They're numbered.
• I'm a Democrat like you wouldn't believe, but I find hate crimes laws to be fairly ludicrous. Isn't policing thought among the worst things we can do? (Plus, how do you prove it in court?) It's an impossible-to-enforce, difficult-to-justify law, which doesn't necessarily do anything to end the problems it attacks; it just punishes them. Now, the Democrats in Congress have passed an even stricter (and equally difficult to prove) revision. Honestly, I don't want my government wasting time on it, frankly. Or maybe I'm a racist, homophobic bastard. Who knows?
  
• For all you StumblersUpon, there's a new StumbleThru which is site-specific. So you can StumbleThru Wikipedia, Flickr, or Blogger. Options are limited, but it is kind of fun.
• Heh. NOT CRAZY ENOUGH.
• The more Glenn Greenwald I read, the more awesome he becomes in my mind. His voice is a necessary, lucid voice in dismantling the disgusting, tyrannical, right-wing lunacy which has trampled past the American populace, and towards which the media shrugs, turning its attention to much more important things like John Edwards' haircut or Don Imus' big mouth. Greenwald is a voice that American media needs to hear, and instead, they all flock to Drudge to see what story-of-the-week to follow this week. His latest piece is on an op-ed that appeared in the Wall Street Journal entitled (no joke): The Law and the President -- in a national emergency, who you gonna call? It just gets worse from there. Read the Greenwald here. This is the logic that runs our country. It seems like Greenwald's one of the few left to call them out on it.
• From RollingStone, selection of President by continual humiliation. That's how the 08 primaries are gonna happen, folks.
• C'mon LAPD... never beat someone who buys ink by the barrel. In fact, just never beat anyone ever. Way to fight the stereotypes, guys.
  
• One last thing: Why hasn't Alberto Gonzales resigned yet? What gives? Does he have to not remember a lot more things under oath? Are there other things he totally agrees with, takes responsibility for, and doesn't remember? Another top Republican demands his removal. QUIT ALREADY.
• I read a story about how secret music had been found encoded into the patterns on the wall of a chapel in Scotland (henceforth to be referred to sadly as "the Da Vinci Code" church). Here's the video: