A blog post on abledbody.com led me to a New York Times article on H.B. 3103, the "Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009".  Both the blog post and NYT article gushed about what a huge boon this bill would be to the deaf community.  Unfortunately, it won't accomplish what it claims to--making internet content and new communications channels more accessible to disabled persons--and will shake the internet with a host of dangerous unintended consequences.

Though touted for its regulation of online television programming by big media, this bill also regulates small content producers, internet relay chat, instant messaging, Skype, Jingle, and other voice chat, email, and more!

We need universal breakfast. Parents are having children they can't afford to feed, not feeding their children even when they receive WIC vouchers and food stamps to buy the food for them, and feeding them food that the government didn't pick out. This must stop.

The White House wants to archive user comments on their Facebook, MySpace, etc. pages. CNSnews reports that some people seem to think this is a threat to privacy...but others don't agree.

Rio Di Janeiro will be hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. I am relieved that it won't be Chicago. I am amused that Chicago was the first city eliminated from the running. Perhaps the IOC (International Olympic Committee) saw some of what I saw?

Read this article if you'd like to know about a another boy beaten in a Chicago neighborhood last night. To be honest, I think this is only making the news because of the pending Olympic question. It happens here all the time.

Chicago's culture breaks people up into two categories -- criminals and victims. There is a culture that associates strength and accomplishment with victimizing others. It exists in some form everywhere, but here in Chicago it is dangerously wide-spread because of the other culture -- the apologists, the victims.