Culture: Why I Stopped Taking Acid - A Reminder Brought to You By TV's Dave Coulier

Unasked for flashback by Noah Mallin

I have to give credit where credit is due and thank/spank Gawker for posting this disturbing yet hypnotizing piece of feminist art. At least I think that's what it is. Oh, have I mentioned that it's a scene from Full House featuring TV's Dave Coulier? Budget the 3 minutes of your life it will take for this deranged audio-visual mantra to work it's magic. After a while I could swear I started to recognize some of the locations. I think there's a den in Scarsdale in here where I once drank a six-pack of Bartles and Jaymes in the 80s. Or is it all in my mind? Behold!

Politics: Senate Votes To Undermine Rule of Law -- Shield Phone Companies From Prosecution For Caving to Illegal Govt Pressure

Sen. Jay Rockefeller -- Why does he hate our freedom?

In a truly sad turn of events, 19 Democrats including Intelligence Chair Jay Rockefeller, voted to save the telcom companies' bacon and shield them from the consequences of inaction. Rather than support a citizen's and a corporation's right to resist being asked or forced to commit a crime at the behest of the federal government, they have rewarded those who did not speak out and used the shield of "patriotism" to hide behind.

The attacks of September 11th were not an excuse to suspend constitutional authority, the rule of law, or common sense. Reasonable people did not speak up in places like Iran, Afghanistan, and Nazi Germany out of the same kind of fear and blindness that gripped companies like AT & T. With every distortion of the rule of law, our constitutional protections, and our American way of life, the President and those who enable his Imperial agenda allow the terrorists to win.

This is a shameful distortion of the rule of law, let your Senator and member of the House know that you will not stand for it!

Art: New York MTA Bans Life Lessons, Multiple Dads

Boing Boing reports on this recently spotted switcheroo on the L Train banning the fathers from TV's Full House. Apparently Deej and the other kids are welcome but their creepy fathers have to stay home. Not that I'm complaining.