Kick the Amp Over

A student from here in Knoxville was arrested and indicted by a federal jury for hacking in to Sarah Palin’s email address.  You can read the indictment here.
Now that you’ve read that, you can get a more up to date account here.

Okay.  So, here’s the skinny:  a student from UT hacked into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email address, which she claims to have used for conducting government business.

Where the hell is the crime?

Yahoo email is not secure, nor does it even pretend to be.  It’s completely web-based.  Everything on the internet is of complete access to everyone it’s just a matter of how to get to it.  There’s no privacy involved in this case.  The email is not through her own server NOR was it even on her computer.  She can’t claim ownership of something web based.

The indictment claims that he posted images of the email on the internet and shared the password with other users.  Firstly, those images that he posted were of things already on the internet.  That’s like posting a screen shot of CNN.com on another web site that’s less confusing to navigate.  And he shared the password with everyone, when all it took was resetting it in the first place.  Literally anyone could do that.

At worst, since Sarah Palin’s written email is copyrighted the second it’s written and it was published on another site she probably has a cease and desist order she can dish out.

If Sarah Palin used her Yahoo email address to conduct personal business, that’s her problem.  I swear this has to be a joke.

McCain isn’t even answering the questions now.  He’s just saying “reaching across the aisle.”  I think he’s going through a relapse.

I hope Obama will actually prioritize those and not say “we need to work on them all.”

McCain, who is looking extra pissed right now, can’t seem to go without using the term “reach across the aisle” which is ironic given that he identifies himself as a Maverick, who would never bother to “reach across the aisle” in the first place.  Why reach over to the OTHER party if you allegedly are too bad-ass for your OWN party?

He also has a penchant for mentioning bizarrely-wasted American tax payer money, which likely involves taking each case out of context.

McCain looks like he’s creeping people out.  He’s certainly creeping me out.

Now Obama is literally spelling things out for people.  He should’ve been doing this all along instead of focusing on sensational speaking.

He’s also attacking McCain for once, and then addressing how people “aren’t out to watch politicians point fingers.”

Brokaw’s starting to hit hard with the questions as well.  Which is helpful because it’s giving Obama a chance to explain himself.

Check out this Onion article.

Here’s another half-hearted attempt at live-blogging during the debate.

Firstly, Obama looks particularly good so far, giving actual detailed answers and not just more steam.
Secondly, McCain looks terrible.  He’s shakey, he’s stuttering, he’s not getting his points across.  He’s bland, he’s not communicating anything, and he looks rough and rigid.

Obama needs to kick it into overdrive tonight.  Not the same answers as before, not the same method of speaking.  He needs to mix it up and he can get this in the bag.

Every time someone refers to John McCain as a Maverick I laugh. For a number of reasons. But mainly it’s because I think of John McCain in Tom Cruise’s role in Top Gun, which eventually leads to thinking about Sarah Palin as Iceman.

Hopefully, their campaign will end up like Goose.

No one who lived through the ’90s can forget the one and only Dana Carvey Show.

Famous (or infamous) for debuting after the family-friendly, feel-good show Home Improvement, the Dana Carvey Show’s first skit of its first episode featured Dana Carvey as Bill Clinton bearing prosthetitic nipples inviting the world to “suckle along at his teets.”

The show, which featured a different sponsor each week, only lasted 8 episodes.  Yet it’s hilarious.

Here you can watch all eight episodes.  My personal favorite involves an interview with Dana Carvey as each of the Beatles.

I didn’t Photoshop the titles.  All I did was add the red marker to outline the most ridiculous sub-heading for a newspaper article I’ve ever seen in my life.