you've got something to tell
i wanna get it all
before the lights go out-- butchie boys
I just finished painting the basement (several spiders were harmed in the process) and I am bagged.
However I must comment on today's disgraceful Supreme Court ruling, which effectively muzzles free speech by ordinary citizens during elections.
I won't go into the details, but here's a brief rundown.
American readers will no doubt recognize it an an analogue of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill. (Canada is famous for importing lousy American legislation a few years after the fact, proving that history does indeed repeat itself as farce.)
However our rulers on the Supreme Court don't seem to have figured out that the media landscape is rapidly changing beneath their stuck-up noses.
Behold, gentle reader, the blogosphere. Third party groups cannot purchase advertising to get their message out?
Well they can get it for free here. No money need change hands. As a public service I'll publish gratis advertisements, links to webpages, small editorials, etc., for people who want to put their opinions forward during this upcoming election. I'd maintain editorial control -- I'm not going to print something from the KKK or Al-Qaeda -- but otherwise the offer is open to anyone in Canada or elsewhere who wants to put forward a viewpoint on the upcoming election.
Of course, this is somewhat risible in regards to this blog, which has only 50-60 regular readers. (And my Sitemeter's been stuck at a somewhat ominous 12 hits for most of today.) But if the idea spreads to some more popular bloggers, then maybe we can serve notice that attempting to suppress free speech in the age of the Internet is like trying to put out a grease fire by throwing water on it.