Last Chance Cafe

I can't believe I'm linking to the Daily Kos, or one of its diaries at least, which I think is where people other than Kos write stuff. Anyway, Kos is a lefty web site for those of you who like that kind of thing, lot's of Chimpy McBushitler stuff. Yet here I am linking because you should go there and read about the FEC rulemaking that will attempt to regulate political speech on the internet.

I'm of the very strong opinion that they shouldn't, for what I believe are very obvious reasons. If you used the internet, especially blogs, to get political information to help you make up your mind about the candidates, you should be interested in this. Right now is the comment period and you should go and comment. Tell them how you've used the internet to gather political information and that you want to continue using it to do so. Or not. I don't want to tell you what to write, only that it's important to let them know what you think.

I personally have very little patience for this kind of malarkey, so I wrote them a short ditty as follows:

I have a blog at www.petefredbob.com/cafe called the Last Chance Cafe. I have also written for the American Spectator Online on a couple of occasions. During the last election cycle I wrote about the candidates on both publications from a partisan viewpoint and promoted one over the other.

I have one comment: Don't make rules governing internet blog postings or other web sites limiting political speech.

There are suggestions as to what to write and what they (the people at the FEC) need to hear through the links at the Kos including a little questionnaire to jog your memory. Be polite.