What Randi Rhodes has been angry about

for at least the past two days:

Student Tasered at John Kerry Speech ... Right or Wrong?



There's no question that tasering a human being for asking a question is wrong, but that's what the video was labeled on MySpace.

So far, John Kerry has said and done nothing about this. If Senator Kerry has said something, and Randi and I have missed it, please let me know.

The Democratization of the Internet

When I first heard about Quarterlife, the new MySpaceTV series coming in November, I didn't want to jump to any conclusions. Why should I think a television show about individuals in their twenties necessarily be about skinny, pretty, whiny white Americans who don't really have anything to say about anything?

If only my cynicism could be proven wrong once. To be fair, I think I saw one black guy in the trailer. The peeps at Defamer had some humorous comments about this groundbreaking series as well.

For more thoughts on representation on and off the interwebs, I direct you to a poignant article about this summer's Yearly Kos convention: Radical Knowledge: Where are all the bloggers of color?, by Brownfemipower, on Zuky, found via Feministe.

Happy Friday!

Someone hijacked my MySpace account

and sent out this bulletin twice:

Date:	Jun 7, 2007 8:47 AM
Subject	ATTENTION ALL MY DAMN FRIENDS!
Body:	NOONE EVER SENDS ME MESSAGES! CAN YOU REPLY AND TELL ME HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME OR SOMETHING! :(!

I didn't know about it until one of my friends sent me a concerned email.

I'm so embarrassed, because it wasn't me, and I'm not all clingy and crazy like that. Yes, I know I have issues. But I don't send out messages in all caps ever. And I like my personal Me time just like everyone else. I do like attention, but in an appropriate manner.

The silver lining of this is, maybe I was hijacked because I have become a prominent tastemaker. I'm approaching Ne-Yo and Omarion status, where I have to clarify that this is the real me. Am I important? Maybe!

Edit: I think this dubious MySpace page is the cause of my troubles. Curse you, you evil social-networking hackers.