SOPA

Did you know that the jokes on popsicle sticks are deliberately terrible so that you never find yourself in a situation where someone people chuckle and find the joke clever and some people don't get it at all and find the chucklers pretentious?  The jokes are awful so they unite everyone in the room together against the joke.

J told me that a couple weeks ago.  Timely, because if I didn't know better, I think I might actually think that's what's happening with SOPA/PIPA and that the bills were the result of a good-hearted soul truly concerned about the level of divisiveness in American politics making a last-ditch attempt to bring everyone together.  Because I definitely know people who are all over the spectrum politically, and this is literally the first time ever when every single person I know (Rupert Murdoch's Twitter account notwithstanding ...) to vocally pick a side has taken the exact same stance.

Myself included.  Down with SOPA!  Long live the Internets!  Write to Congress now!