kC on TCM:
"May they all be vaporized."
"Every day that passes, I'm more convinced that McVeigh did the right thing. Some innocents died, but, hey, war is hell. Broken eggs and all that."
yeah, I've noticed that TCM is really uptight lately and has been way off the scale (more so than usual) on the "panty-knot" scale. what gives, Tim? I think the situation is mostly he's so upset that congress is discussing bills with the words "crypto" in them, which is apparently enough to make him cringe with terror. when the CDA was being passed, I think his hemor^h^h^h rhetoric swelled up then too as well. but look at what happened with the CDA-- it got challenged, killed by lower courts, and is stuck in the supreme court, likely to be struck down there too. far from the end of the world forecast by some here. the congressional crypto bills are generally a good thing, because they are increasing public awareness of the issue. any bill that is not fair or just is likely to be tested in the courts, and if our system is beyond an orwellian tyranny, will be struck down. do we have a constitution or not? if so, we have nothing to worry about. (of course, I am not advocating doing nothing, but I am advocating not panicking or calling for the "vaporization of washington"..) there might actually be an advanteage in a very orwellian bill *passing*. if it is struck down, perhaps no legislator would ever try again, and those that tried would have their reputations marred with widescale public infamy. TCM is terrified by virtually anything that happens in govt, which is amusing and comical at times.