Maybe a trained hostage negotiator should weigh in on this. Because that’s what this is.

I’m surprised. I didn’t think BYU would allow such skimpy attire for its female students.

I was going to say that at least Oprah would have the sense to bring in competent people to do the actual work, but then I remembered “Dr” Phil.

I guess they have it set up so some functions are handled by or through their servers. I suppose it might be possible to set up a router to intercept all those communications and redirect them to your own servers instead, but it’s probably easier to just set up your own system from scratch with off-the-shelf parts and…

It’s probably a cold, which he will of course deny.

...there’s an amazing 53-page thread about him over at the scale4x4rc.org forums.

“I’m Canadian”

I used to say the Bush administration only thought one move ahead. I think this one doesn’t even think that far ahead.

In his defense, the policy was very clear.

I’ve heard similar stories about the Blarney Stone.

This was in Kentucky, though, so all bets are off on that.

There’s an actual factual explanation for this involving people crossing the land bridge from Asia to North America, but I have to go now and don’t have time to Google whether it’s the Aztecs or Mayans whose features she’s seeing in their modern Mexican descendants.

“Are You Fucking Kidding Me (DEMS LOSE HOUSE)”

What about pizza delivery drivers?

Pretty sneaky with the product placement there, McDonald’s.

And maybe mandated unique-to-each-camera digital signatures on original recordings. (Actually I’m not certain that would cast much doubt right away since there’s a lot of un-signed content out there, but it could help with copyright claims.)

You’d have to chop it up first.