Have you heard of SOPA yet?

If you haven't heard of SOPA yet, let me elucidate. SOPA stands for "Stop Online Piracy Act", and is legislation our congressional leaders (HA!) are thinking of passing. Stopping online piracy doesn't sound like such a bad thing, does it? Well, actually it is, the way this legislation would work anyway. Basically, SOPA would make it a felony to use someone else's copyrighted material in any way. Here's one way this scenario could go...

Imagine Grandma is watching her young granddaughter one day, she's 10. One of her favorite singers is Lady GaGa. She's playing "Edge of Glory" and starts lip-syncing to it. Grandma whips out her Iphone and starts recording her precious grandchild. She thinks the video is so cute, she decides to upload it to Youtube so that all her friends in her knitting circle can see it. The next day, Lady GaGa's record label, Interscope Records, catches wind of this video. Since they're the copyright holder for that song, they can have Youtube blacklisted so that no one can go there until the video is taken down, Grandma will be arrested and if convicted, spend 5 years in a state prison for the heinous crime of being proud of her 10 year old grandchild singing a Lady GaGa song!

Yes, this is the kind of legislation that our congress, (who can't even stop bickering long enough to give a crap about how our country is going to HELL) is thinking of making into a law. Let's make anyone who wants to sing a song or act out a scene from their favorite movie into a felon and lock them up for 5 years! After all, we don't have enough people in this country behind bars yet.

Internet Shopping Addiction?

Remember that day awhile back when Lady GaGa broke Amazon.com? When they had her album "born this way" on sale for $0.99? I just remembered that I, like many others bought that album that day. I'm not sure why I did, I just remember thinking, "an entire album for 99 cents, Hells yeah!"

I'm not sure how long ago that was, a month or so I'm thinking, and I have yet to listen to even one of the songs off her album, and frankly feel no real desire to right now. It makes me begin to wonder if this could be sign of some sort of internet shopping addiction??

Creepy...huh?!

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it creepy, and a little sad for Jane Krakowski of "30 Rock" fame, that Weird-Al Yankovic looks so much like her when he's dressed up as Lady Ga-Ga in his latest parody video?