Post-election post-mortem

Can I just say one thing in regards to yesterday's election results? (With apologies to kitanzi and anyone else who felt nagged to death about voting...)

( Warning: Shameless gloating behind the cut. )

MySpace? Not any more. It's OurSpace. Don't like it? Tough titty.

From Wired News: A Louisiana-based indie rock band called Bones has for a couple of years now had a page on MySpace.com, one of the insanely popular Web 2.0 user-content-driven sites that have been popping up all over the Net lately and getting bought up by megacorps with deep pockets and no real Internet strategy of their own. One fine day, they logged on to discover that their page had been taken over by a Fox Broadcasting Co. TV show that just happened to have the same name. MySpace, of course, had just recently been bought out by News Corp., which also just happens to own the Fox broadcast and cable empire that is metastasizing all over the tube like a particularly odious cancer. Read the full story here. (Full disclosure: Your Humble Correspondent also has a MySpace page.)

Memo to Tom Anderson, founder of MySpace: This is what happens when you sell out your users and let go of your brainchild to the likes of Rupert Murdoch for the sake of a gigundo cash-out. YouTube guys, are y'all taking notes? And to my man David "Angel" Boreanaz: Don't worry, babe, I know it's not your fault.

The Congress is OURS!

WAAAA-HOOOO!!! Virginia came through for the Democrats after all! Jim Webb won and George Allen has announced he will not seek a recount. The Democratic Party now CONTROLS BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS!!!

( More shameless gloatage back here! )

Sing for the red, white and blue

For reasons no one who knows me (or has read the last post) should have to guess, I feel patriotic and celebratory tonight. My favorite patriotic song for my country is, without doubt, "America the Beautiful" as recorded immortally by the Genius hisownself, Ray Charles, may he rest in God's own peace. (But Neil Diamond's "America" comes in a close second.) What's yours?