Internal Monologue

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Apparently, it is now illegal in France to videotape violence unless you are a professional journalist. Macworld News (HT: Sullivan ): The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday on the night of March 3, 1991. The officers’ acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles. If Holliday were to film a similar scene of violence in France today, he could end up in prison as a result of the new law, said Pascal Cohet, a spokesman for French onli

Scoring some big points with the netroots, Edwards says no to appearing on FOX "News" . Good for Edwards. Why any Democrat should be legitimating a right-wing propaganda outfit is beyond me. Apparently no one quite knows who made the deal in the first place . Let's see if the other Democratic candidates follow suit.

Unreleased Jimmy Page Guitar Riff To Be Retrieved From Secret Vault To Save Rock And Roll

Libby found guilty on 4 of 5 counts . What the fired prosecutor scandal really needs right now is a catchy name. Help Jonathan Singer come up with one .

The caption for this photo from the theater section of today's New York Times should read: "I never knew having my brain sucked out would feel so SEXY!" (Admittedly, the illithid performing the oral cerebrectomy in this picture is disguised as actor Pablo Schreiber.)

Continuing Internal Monologue 's series on Star Wars revisionist history , we have these questions from someone who isn't buying the official line on how the Death Star was destroyed: 1) Why were a handful of rebel fighters able to penetrate the defenses of a battle station that had the capability of destroying an entire planet and the defenses to ward off several fleets of battle ships? ... 4) Why has there not been an investigation into allegations that Darth Vader, the second-ranking member of the Imperial Government, is in fact the father of the pilot who allegedly destroyed the Death Star? 5) Why did Lord Vader decide to break all protocols and personally pilot a lightly armored TIE Fighter? Conveniently, this placed Lord Vader outside of the Death Star when it was destroyed, where he was also conveniently able to escape from a large-sized rebel fleet that had just routed the Imperial forces. Why would Lord Vader, one of the highest ranking members of the Imperial G