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So... In a gutsy move, I've decided not to embark upon another soapbox rant today, and will instead attempt to entertain you with more traditional journaling fodder. First off, Cheers and a very Happy New Year to you all.  My deviantART New Year's Resolution this year (as last year's remains unfulfilled) will be to average more than one deviation a month.  What's your devious resolution?  (see new poll question on journal page) A big thank you to everyone who helped with or participated in some way in the first-ever deviantART Presents dAPresents (https://www.deviantart.com/dapresents) tour featuring BT & Thomas Dolby in a Virtual Battle for Sonic the Hedgehog...  Errmmm...

Some very disturbing news today, my friends.  In a rather Orwellian move, the Pentagon is establishing (prompted by the complaints of none other than Secretary Rumsfeld) a unit to combat "misinformation" in the media.  This unit will not only do its best to invite its own "surrogates" (read: propagandists) into interviews and onto TV segments and shows, it will also be (this is straight from the Defense Department memorandum) monitoring the "new media" of the internet. My friends, it was not enough that the US government was monitoring who you talked to by looking at your phone records (provided your phone company had no spine) without a FIS