ScrappleFace is always a good satirical read, but this is one of the best posts I’ve seen there… or anywhere, for that matter:

Dear Mrs. Sheehan,

You have asked me to identify the noble cause for which your son died. I have not answered you personally out of respect for the nobility of your son’s sacrifice.

Being president forces me into the spotlight, but I would rather stand in the shadows of men like Casey Sheehan.

Go read the whole thing.

The FCC will be shutting down the VoIP phones of about 30,000 customers because the internet can go down, and if it does, your Enhanced 911 may not work.

The FCC is out of control. They have a raging hard-on for the Internet, and are doing everything they can to gain regulatory control over it. Now, 31,000 customers who receive VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service are getting cut off. See, the FCC thinks people are stupid and that people don’t know that when the power goes off, your internet goes off, or that sometimes… for random reasons… the internet cuts out. If you’ve been using the internet for more than a day, I think it’s bleeding obvious that the thing isn’t exactly 100% reliable. 404 Error, Page not found. “Could not connect to server.” “You have been disconnected.” Par for course, right? Well, the FCC has decided that unless you explicitly state that you are aware that the internet can sometimes be suddenly disconnected and that your VoIP service might not work all the time, they are going to shut your service off.

Now, my phone (the second line I use for the internet) has a nasty habit of going out every time a drop of rain falls. In addition, I went through several weeks where my phone cut off every evening at exactly 7 p.m., just after it became impossible to reach any customer service reps. Not only did Verizon not warn me that my phone might sometimes go out, they told me that it wasn’t going out at all! (Eventually, one of their technicians admitted that he’d had to reset a particular breaker every morning for the last few weeks, and after they replaced the bad board causing that, my phone stopped going out. Funny, that.)

Is the FCC going to shut off my phone service now?

( þ Tempus Fugit )

According to this post on blogging advice, Jon apparently didn’t think that this post wasn’t getting enough of a response. It’s well written, but I probably would’ve appreciated it more if I hadn’t seen the twist coming from the first paragraph. The fact many on the Left supported removing Saddam Hussein (and believed he was supporting terrorism) up until the point that Bush actually started working toward that goal isn’t exactly new news.

Still, if you know someone who wasn’t already aware of the hypocrisy on the Left side of America’s political spectrum (either because they’re living under a rock, or get all their news from CBS), now you know where to point them.