Archive for March 7th, 2002

MPAA raking in the dough despite piracy

Thursday, March 7th, 2002

This from Slashdot, which I couldn’t have said better myself: “Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, has reported that the year 2001 was the ‘greatest box office year in film history’ with movie admissions reaching their highest level since 1959. Isn’t this the same industry that is complaining that piracy is putting them out of business?”

Charles Pickering nomination failing

Thursday, March 7th, 2002

Liberals are being blamed for the presumed defeat of Charles Pickering’s nomination to the Court of Appeals. Orrin Hatch has called the outcry against Pickering a “lynching,” which is awfully ironic coming from a man who helped the Judiciary Committee beat up on Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings.