LA has decided that it’s important to be a Nanny and tell you what food you can and can’t eat. God forbid people be able to decide for themselves. They just aren’t smart enough for that.

Vimeo is still getting a ton of feedback over their snotty decision to pull video game videos from the service because of “resource issues.” The original post on the Vimeo blog is now up to over a thousand comments… Here’s a snip from one I found particularly poignant:

And though Vimeo may have sprung on the scene a whole four months earlier than YouTube, there’s no doubt that it’s not the intention of Connected Ventures, ultimately, to make that “YouTube money,” rather than

“[Provide] a place to share video with friends and family.”

as illustrated by this decision. You’re essentially shooing away a fairly significant market of your users, rather than attempting to work out some kind of compromise with them (game videos can’t be more than 5 mins long, can’t be viewed in HD, etc).

You may claim not to impose restrictions on the majority of your users due a minority faction, but this is the catalyst, and showing your disregard for an entire group of your users will just be moved onto the next highest resource hogging niche.

It’s only a matter of time before cat videos, lip syncs, etc., are viewed as not creative enough or too resource-intensive to stay on the site.

One thing that hasn’t been answered is how is something merely being on the site so resource intensive that it hurts the site for others? We’ll never know because people like Dalas Verdugo and Blake Whitman are way more interested in just saying “it is what it is, deal with it.”

I did deal with it.

I moved on.

Michelle Obama, much like her husband, is a hypocritical piece of garbage. Much like her husband, she wants to get away from the “politics of fear” and so on (most likely so she can be proud of her country for only the second time in her adult life).

This, my friends, is not the politics of fear.

Michelle Obama mixed a story about how her husband, the Democratic presidential candidate asked her out, with a solemn assessment of U.S. economic and social conditions during a visit to the Denver area Wednesday.

Obama spoke before a crowd of about 150 that paid from $1,000 to $10,000 apiece at a private fundraising dinner at a downtown Denver hotel. She earlier spoke briefly to volunteers for the Democratic National Convention after landing at Centennial Airport in the south-Denver suburb of Englewood…

…”I wish we had time to be divided. I wish we had time to be upset. To be angry. To be disappointed. I wish we did,” Obama said. “Because if we had time for that, then things wouldn’t be so bad right now. Instead, we’re in a place where another four or eight years of the world as it is will devastate the life of some child.”

Vote for us our your children’s lives will be ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuined!

Mwuahahahahaahahahaha

Yep. No fear mongering here. Nothing to see. Move right along.

via Michelle Malkin

Recession defined:

In macroeconomics, a recession is generally associated with a decline in a country’s real gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth. According to widespread definition, a recession occurs when real growth is negative for two or more successive quarters of a year.

Recession defined according to Reuters:

So… We have slow growth and a recession happening at the same time according to Reuters.

Nice one!

I’m tired of double standards, so I’m on a mission to shatter them.