Some girls got into a fight. One parent watched, someone video taped it and then put it on the internet. It’s not an altogether interesting story, but the media is desperate to make it sensational. The video was posted on Myspace and if you’ve been paying attention to the news this past year, the media loves to blame Myspace for a lot of things, like sexual predators.

Myspace is what the user makes of it. If they want to have contact with strangers, it’s up to the user. Myspace doesn’t compel users to talk to strangers or meet them in real life. Users must make that choice and in the case of minors, parents need to be involved. Of course many parents choose to be uninvolved and expect everyone else to monitor their children. It shouldn’t be the business of Myspace to police how users interact. And Myspace can’t control all content without sacrificing usability. Imagine if any change you make to a website you control won’t go into effect until approved by some company moderator. For everyone that users Blogger/Blogspot, it’s easy to imagine. When you write a post, it appears when you choose to publish it. Would you continue to user Blogger/Blogspot if it took days for posts be be approved? I doubt it.

Here’s the funny thing about how the media is reporting the fight. They want to lay blame on Myspace for providing a service that can be used to distribute the video, but the media themselves are distributing images of the fight. They even impose their station logo onto the image. Kettle calling the pot black?

And what’s the deal with “school officials are also investigating”? It’s not the purpose of schools to investigate or punish children for what they do off of school property.

There is no god. Well, maybe there is, but then it is a vengeful and mean god. Britney Spears is pregnant again. Can we have a court order to have her spayed and Kevin Federline neutered? I don’t care if it’s done with or without a court order. It must be done. If someone wants to pay my expenses, I’ll go do it myself and I promise it won’t be a clean surgery. The demon in Spears loin will be her second and Federline’s fourth. They have reproduced more than enough. Stop the madness!

The only upside of Britney Spears being barefoot and pregnant is that she won’t be working much for awhile. Of course Kevin, or K-Fed as he apparently likes to be called because he thinks it’s cool, is desperately trying to be taken seriously as a musician. He’s having a difficult time with that, probably because he’s not taken seriously has a human being either.

One thing I fear is that Spears will try to create a family act, like the Jackson 5 or Partridge Family.

It’s important to know what your government is up to. Historically, the public has relied on the media to keep us informed, but in this new information age we’re learning how little the media actually reports. Especially when it comes to local news. Just check out the Wisconsin State Journal’s local section.

Thankfully our state government has actually taken steps to keep citizens informed. It’s incredibly simple too. First go to Wisconsin Legislative Notifications Website and then register. I usually don’t like registering to view content on a website, but this service sends your requested information to your email address, so you must register. Once you’re registered, pick what you would like to be informed of based upon your chosen criteria; proposal number, committee, author and subject.

Proposal number is useful if you already know of a particular piece of legislation that you’d like to keep track of. Other than that, it won’t help you.

Committee is perhaps the most useful. If a particular issue interests you, then choose to be informed of any activity by the committee that oversees that issue. Keep in mind that usually several committees oversee an issue and sometimes it’s not readily apparent which committee would be involved. It takes a little digging, but you’ll be able to find exactly which committees are important to your issues.

Author is useful to keep track of your representatives. This service won’t tell you how your representative votes on a proposal, but it will tell you the activity on proposals authored by your representatives, or any representative you’d like to track.

Subject is the final and most vague of the choices. Just like Google, if you search for a single word, you’ll get a lot of information that isn’t what you’re looking for. However, if you’re willing to sift through the information, you’ll find what you’re looking for.

Welcome to the new site. Look around, play with the site. If you find anything broken or have a suggestion, leave a comment.

I’m a bit of a night owl, in part because of my job as a bouncer and also because there’s less people around at night and I don’t like people (or at least crowds of people). I’m not kidding either. I really don’t like people. If I’m at the mall, I feel like I’m being suffocated and the next person that annoys me is going to find my fist down their throat. But I’m probably a night owl mostly due to a mild case of insomnia.

Thankfully, there are some things to enjoy in the wee hours of the night. [adult swim] on Cartoon Network is one of them. I don’t always agree with their programming choices. Some shows like The Oblongs and S-cry-ed are stupid and not entertaining, but you can’t please everyone all the time. I’ll take a few misses now and them for the great hits like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Robot Chicken.

But alas, [adult swim] has jumped the shark. Saved By The Bell is now on Cartoon network right after Family Guy. When I first heard they were putting Saved By The Bell on during [adult swim] I wondered how they would pervert it. Would they to do something like Mystery Science Theater or Pop-Up Video? No such luck. They’re playing Saved By The Bell episodes completely unmolested. How in the hell is that supposed to entertain me? If I wanted to watch Saved By The Bell, I’d get a TiVo and record the 2 hours of episodes every morning on TBS (The Boring Station). I actually knew Saved By The Bell was on TBS every morning starting at 6am. That’s usually when I go to bed because that’s the magic hour when there’s nothing worth watching on TV and by that time I’ve been all over the internet, so if I’m going to do nothing, I might as well do nothing in bed.

I’ve looked into why Saved By The Bell is on Cartoon Network and I’m not happy with what I’ve found. It seems simple to assume that a network called Cartoon Network would play only animation, but some corporate stooges want to add live action. Saved By The Bell is just the beginning. In case you didn’t know, Cartoon Network is owned by Turner Broadcasting, which also owns TBS. Apparently Turner Broadcasting is flexing its muscle and is forcing [adult swim] to add shows like Saved By The Bell, probably because some limited test group of [adult swim] fans liked that stupid show.

I’ve sent a complaint to Williams Street, which is the division of Cartoon Network that produces [adult swim], but I doubt it will do much good. If Turner Broadcasting really is getting more involved with the programming choices, Williams Street Studio won’t be able to do much about it.

As Bud Macintosh once said, “Think globally, but act locally”. I’m boycotting Cartoon Network until Saved By The Bell is removed from [adult swim]. I’d be even more happy if that show was completely removed from the air and all copies of the episodes were destroyed, but I’ll allow it to exist so long as it never invades my world again.

I already didn’t like Ted Turner. I didn’t need another reason to hate him. Speaking of Ted Turner, one of the funniest things you’ll ever see on Cartoon Network (a network Ted Turner owns I remind you) is the episode of Family Guy when Peter plays poker with Louis’ father and they make fun of Ted Turner.