Under the weight of bristling internet activism against censorship, ArsTechnica reports that support for PIPA and SOPA evaporated over the course of the last two weeks in the Senate. Politicians from both side of the spectrum backed off of the bill after serious concerns were lobbied from across the tech industry about the potential impact it could have on the economy and internet.

Over in South Carolina, Governor Nikki Haley released a doomsday message about unions during her State of the Union. Get a full taste of this nonsense:

The people of South Carolina have a strong work ethic, they value loyalty, and they take tremendous pride in the quality of their work. We don’t have unions in South Carolina because we don’t need unions in South Carolina.

However, as we saw with the assault from the NLRB, the unions don’t understand that. They will do everything they can to invade our state and drive a wedge between our workers and our employers. We can’t have that. Unions thrive in the dark. Secrecy is their greatest ally, sunlight their most potent adversary.

Quick hits: BuiltLean has a great infograph about how ‘fruit juice’ is really just soda in disguise. Doug at Balloon Juice looks at how state and local government contribution’s to GDP have taken a nose-dive in recent years. And the Muppets hit back at Fox News.

From Business Insider, Reddit co-Founder Alexis Ohanian talks about the potential devastation SOPA will inflict on the technology and internet industry. For those of you unaware, SOPA is bill in the House of Representatives pushed by the major media companies that will potentially make linking to copyrighted material illegal.

Rob Boston at AlterNet has a great article on five of America’s founding fathers whose skepticism about religion and Christianity would make them unelectable today. Who knew that George Washington and John Adams were so against the use of religion in public and political spheres?

Quick hits: At Daily Kos, Kaili Joy Gray writes about her ridiculous experience with Bank of America that continues over 2 years after her husband passed away. Rude Pundit takes on 10 years of Gitmo, Balloon Juice has it’s own 10 year anniversary, and Politics USA talks about how the GOP has put the Bible ahead of country and constitution. And of course, stick to your New Years resolutions and lose weight naturally with BuiltLean!

Obesity costs America a ton of money. Jack Lalanne pulled 70 boats filled with 70 people each… at age 70. Everyone loves to hate Scumbag Steve (and he’s back!). And don’t forget about his ol’ timey medieval ancestor, Scoundrel Stefano. This guy seems totally legit.

Sorry for the lack of updates on the world of all things blog. We’ve been busy blogging ourselves into a damn corner over here. But here we go:

Do you want to hear Barack Obama say “That guy ain’t shit. Sorry ass motherfucker”? Well, now you can, because April Winchell uploaded all of the incredible cursing from Dreams From My Father into one blog post, aptly titled Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit.

In the gross news of the day, a 72 year old grandmother is having a baby with (wait for it)… her 26 year old grandson. Wut the shit:

72-year-old Pearl Carter has fallen in love and is having a baby with her 26-year-old grandson Phil Bailey. The pair have hired a surrogate mother to have their baby. Pearl says: “I’m not interested in anyone else’s opinion. I am in love with Phil and he’s in love with me. Soon I’ll be holding my son or daughter in my arms and Phil will be the proud dad.”

And in other news, one tank of ethanol contains enough grain to feed one African for a year, if Juno was 10 times shorter and 100 times more honest, how to save 150 dollars on your cable and internet bill, how to inoculate your children against advertising, my church throws parties for prostitutes, and the Jews own all the worlds media (you know it has to be true, it’s on a blog!)

Sorry for the hiatus folks! We were busy developing our own blog so we didn’t have time to check out other peoples blogs… until now. So let’s get things started.

There’s:

• The 80′s Synth Melody

• One tank of ethanol contains enough grain to feed one African for a year

• If Juno Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest (I’m sorry I’m 1 year late with this)

• How to save 150 dollars on your Comcast cable and internet bill

• How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising

• New York Before & After Cars

• Sun Tzu’s Wisdom, And It Does Not Look Good For America

• Medical reasons to have Sex Everyday

• What Life Was Like In Pakistan in 1948 in Pictures

• And since we are all hermetic nerds who have no comprehension of other humans, The Critical 7 Rules To Understand People

And remember, check out the other PBH Network blogs: there’s PBH2, PBH3, Die Guido Die and Die Hipster Die.

Look, everybody! Our betters are Harvard Business School are telling us how the world should work again:

There’s a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape. The last two points above are what express it most concisely. I hate labels, but I’m going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation “M.”

What do the “M”s in Generation M stand for? The first is for a movement. It’s a little bit about age — but mostly about a growing number of people who are acting very differently. They are doing meaningful stuff that matters the most. Those are the second, third, and fourth “M”s.

Gen M is about passion, responsibility, authenticity, and challenging yesterday’s way of everything. Everywhere I look, I see an explosion of Gen M businesses, NGOs, open-source communities, local initiatives, government.

Here’s what it looks like to me: every generation has a challenge, and this, I think, is ours: to foot the bill for yesterday’s profligacy — and to create, instead, an authentically, sustainably shared prosperity.

Yep, you read that right! Generation M! Harvard Business School! Sustainably shared prosperity! Apparently, 3 years at upper-class day camp gives this guy the tremendous perspective that there are things wrong with this world.

Wake up call: You go to Harvard. You go to Business School. You are what is wrong with this world. No one wants to be associated with the criminal excesses you partake in, your fucked-up money first mentality, your undeserved smugness, or your idiotic jingoism that thinly covers your predatory behavior. No matter your age or ‘perspective’, no one with common sense or decency wants to be lectured by an over-privileged MBA-getting dipshit. Do the rest of us a favor and confine yourself to Goldman Sachs and the Wall Street Journal.

PS. You make Thomas Friedman seem intelligent.

I have some really, really, really sad news everybody. Mia Farrow is putting herself in harms way to alleviate the poverty of the Sudanese people. How brave, how noble a lady she is to stop eating food for a couple of weeks in the comfort of her own food, just to raise awareness for third world peoples! Wrong rights explains:

Well, if the hundreds of thousands displaced or dead in Darfur weren’t bad enough already, now the violence is impacting the well-being of our nation’s precious celebrities. Actress Mia Farrow recently announced that next week she will begin a hunger strike in solidarity with the (very hungry) people of Darfur…

And am I the only one who expects to see the “Darfur Diet” popping up in next month’s Cosmopolitan magazine as a great way to get in shape for bikini season and attract the attention of that cute “activist” boy who hangs out at your local fair trade coffee shop?

Meanwhile on Wall Street, everyone’s stealing our money and we’re smiling with watermelon and cow shit on our teeth like absent-minded peasants:

One week after they make a change in the banking rules Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs project profits in the billions of dollars.

Somewhere, in the back of my mind, my bullshit alarm is ringing./blockquote>

Hopefully it is ringing with Fergies “My Humps” — because if there is a song for this economic depression induced by corporate greed and exploitation, its that.

Apparently TEH ISLAMS can also find God in all sorts of everyday objects, including an egg:

Other things worth a peek: Female OOOO faces, no date is complete without a trip to Carls Jr, and it’s a PANDA PARTY!!!!

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Andrew Sullivan:

I know Obama isn’t going to fix the economy overnight, I know he won’t be able to provide healthcare to all Americans by February ’09. I know Obama isn’t a Messiah who four years from now will have turned this country into a fabled utopia. But I also know Obama will make moral decisions. I know Obama will try to unite where others try to divide. I know Obama will help to make America the beacon of hope it once was to others. I know that at 27 years of age, I witnessed one of the most important and hopefully glorious chapters in American history.

Rob Dreher:

1. The modern conservative movement began with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. The modern conservative movement ends with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. John McCain — who took Goldwater’s Senate seat upon his retirement — in the 2008 presidential race.

2. Modern liberalism began its implosion with riots in Chicago’s Grant Park at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Tonight, modern liberalism is reborn at Chicago’s Grant Park, where a black Chicago Democrat will celebrate winning the presidency.

John Cole:

I am still in shock. This was a damned landslide. It seems so long ago that I was the skeptical one, mocking Obama as the Magical Unity Pony- I think people forget that I was one of the folks who was simply going to support Hillary as the alternative to the GOP disaster.

This is just stunning. This changes everything. He treated us like adults, he converted the skeptics, and now he has a chance to make his mark. I was an Obama skeptic, and mocked him as the Magical Unity Pony, and mocked him “transcending” things. People forget that, I guess.

But now, no more fake nicknames- this is President-Elect Barack Obama. And I am so very, very proud.

Megan McArdle:

This is a strange election in another way–it’s not really close, but people are watching it as if it is. In 1996, my office had to use a point spread, and post a hefty premium, to get people interested in betting on the Clinton-Dole matchup. We’ve all known for a while that Obama was going to win, wistful dreams notwithstanding. But everyone’s watching as if this were the seventh game of a tied world series.

Me, I was hoping that Obama would win, but without much boost in Senate support or a large vote mandate; I like me some hamstrung politicians. Wan hope, now dashed. I’ll just have to take solace in Being There While History Is Made.

Marc Ambinder:

President Bush and Republicans were sent to the doghouse. This was a huge opportunity year for Democrats, and Obama took advantage of it in every possible way — great campaign, virtually no mistakes (dealing with the controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the “bitter/cling” remarks are the only two I can think of.), they built a huge organization (the DNC and Howard Dean deserve some credit here too) and an unbelievable $630 million+ financial machine. Two times as many voters said they were personally contacted by the Obama campaign as by the McCain campaign.

Obsidian Wings:

Tonight’s win is hard to put into words. The historical significance speaks for itself. But for all its rich history, tonight is also about far more than Barack Obama.

Any way you slice it, the 2008 election should be seen as a massive repudiation of the George W. Bush administration. Karl Rove’s project failed miserably. Bush is instead bequeathing large Democratic majorities to the next president. And that’s no accident. It’s the inevitable byproduct of a political strategy based on polarization. That strategy may win in the short term (indeed, it did) – but it’s a long-term loser. That’s because this type of strategy inevitably rallies forces against it. It’s just a matter of physics – every action brings an equal and opposite reaction. In this sense, the 2008 election is simply the ripple effects of the 2002 election.

For this reason – and somewhat ironically – George W. Bush is arguably the father of the modern progressive revival. Tonight’s victories — and the infrastructure that made them possible — would simply be unthinkable in the absence of Bush. That’s not to say, of course, that the nation is better because Bush was president. It’s not. But the birth of the new progressive infrastructure is the silver lining of that long eight-year cloud.

Feministe:

I love living in New York, but this is maybe the night I’ve loved it most. Everyone is in the streets cheering. People are yelling “Yes We Can!” to strangers. I watched two girls hug on a street corner, and a smiled as a car full of cheering boys drove past me. Taxis are honking. Before the election was called for Obama, I was in my office in midtown working late, and every hour and a half or so, all the way up on the 30th floor, I would hear a huge swelling cheer from the street — and a quick click over to NBC would show that Obama had just won one state or another. I haven’t seen people this excited any other time in my life; I also haven’t ever heard a speech like the one Obama gave tonight. New Yorkers waited in two, three, and four-hour-long lines today to cast ballots overwhelmingly for a candidate we all knew was going to win our state. That’s an incredible show not only of patriotism and of support for this one man, but, to use a popular word this year, of hope.

Feministing:

Obama wins! OMFG! I don’t know that I ever thought I’d write these words, but here it is: The US has elected its first African-American President. And I’m an emotional mess. Like many of you, I’m celebrating with family. I’m sure I’ll have more to say tomorrow, but for now, I’m going to go do a happy dance and cry some more with my nearest and dearest.

Pensitoreview:

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Keeping up on the intrigue and detail of everyday Joe 6 Pick Sarah Palin, it turns out not only is her family worth over a million dollars, but the bitch done cheated on her taxes too:

“Palin, it appears, did not pay taxes on the more than $60,000 of travel reimbursements that she and her family members reportedly billed the state during her 18 months as governor.”

It further appears that the Republican machine is doing everything in their power to stop the release of the Troopergate investigation:

Texas-based Liberty Legal Institute and Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson, representing the group of anti-investigation legislators, filed the emergency appeal.

“The plaintiffs and Alaskans will suffer irreparable harm if the investigation at issue continues and if the resulting investigative report issues as planned on Oct. 10, 2008,” they wrote in their appeal.

Yup, you heard right. Alaska will suffer if the investigation goes through. Doesn’t get much more desperate than that.

In an expose on the GOP machines reliance on the image of economic and energy efficiency by increased drilling entitled Drill, Baby, Drill: How the Media Has Influenced America’s Perception of Drilling to Solve the Energy Crisis:

However, McCain’s campaign seems to have convinced the American public that offshore drilling is a great idea. For example, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released in late July, 69% of respondents supported increased offshore drilling, while 30% opposed it. Even more striking, 51% of respondents believed that if the ban on offshore drilling were lifted, gas prices would go down within the next year. The talk of drilling has also reopened the perennial debate over increased drilling in Alaska. Although McCain himself has not advocated for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), his running mate, Sarah Palin, is all for it. Based on the chants of “Drill, baby, drill!” that greeted her on stage at the Republican convention, so are many Republicans.

Otherwise, worth a read: “Terrorist” has been redefined by the Maryland State Police. If you oppose the death penalty or against the war in Iraq-now are a “terrorists.”, Are We Sure About Pending Collapse of Ad-Supported Internet?, Republicans, Ron Paul Was Your Only Hope, Teacher Calls 6th Grader Muslim Student a Terrorist, What capitalism does to workers when it thinks it can get away with it, and Can you afford to get sick?

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Let’s jump right into this thing. As we know, we have a God-loving, ‘Tard-making Alaskan governor about to possibly become the next Vice President (plus she looks hot in a USA A-OK bikini). And like all good Christians, she hates books:

[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.

And you know why Bush would never be impeached by that wonderful Democratic congress we elected? It turns out they knew about torture techniques being used the whole time:

Essentially, the foot-dragging on impeachment is because Pelosi’s paw-prints are all over legislation that virtually allowed Bush to ignore Congress and do whatever the hell he wanted, while Congress abdicated its oversight responsibility and broke the system of Checks and Balances by failing to check the Executive Branch in its grab for power.

And, in the king of “What the Fuck”, America’s drug czar declares ”No drug matches the threat posed by marijuana.” You heard it right! Getting high on a non-lethal, non-addictive plant is the greatest drug threat facing America. Just don’t let the god damn terrorists win.

Also See: When winter comes, the power of mother nature can cool your refrigerator (or some such), Talking To Hamas (Instead of Killing People) Makes You a Bigot, Are our suburbs going to turn into slums?, and Hillary’s 3am Girl Does A Commercial For Obama.

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