…and we like it, for once. A bit late to the fight, but there nonetheless, Congressman Reyes signed up to co-sponsor the Internet Radio Equality Act. This is an initiative to allow small-time broadcasting (podcasting) by individuals, colleges, and the like, and has 134 sponsors in the House. More on the act here. MSM to blame for trying to raise copyright and royalty issues beyond the already-absurd point, in order to keep up marketshare and keep those dollars flowing in.

MSM has missed the boat for 15 years. Their attack on podcasters was just another tactic to avoid the fundamental issue everyone (but them) know: MSM products are crap. Journalism is inaccurate, biased and unpopular. Music is inane and boring. Television is devoid of useful content. The brightest sparks of creativity in media are being set off by DIY media ventures made possible by the Internet and modern home-computer technologies.

You can write, record and publish your own music in a day off your bedroom computer. You can research and publish a blog post in an hour at a public library. You can digitally stream a video of you teaching how to make a souffle and have it read by people in 15 foreign countries, in an afternoon. And you can do it better because you don’t have a bottom line, a nest of fearful bosses, or irked stockholders to worry about.

… but I can’t hold a candle to this blogger. Here’s a priceless post on Dem’s frustrations with the ex-Marine.

Murtha is in the news this weekend because of the dismissal of charges against Haditha Marine LCpl Justin Sharratt, one of the “cold-blooded killers” named by Murtha.

I’d say it’s gotta suck to be Murtha, but he’s been sucking for so long that he no longer understands what the word means. It’s as ingrained in him as his politically-tone deaf, self-serving, arrogant character.