Jumpin’ Jeebus — it’s STILL going on. Some brainless idiot has managed to suck up a template that re-displays RSS feeds from the poker bloggers and is presenting it under the name “poker.all-information.info“. Clearly, that has caused some personal problems for the site owner/thief:

This site has been redesigned to use a better blogging system. Previous posts are no longer available. This site uses RSS feeds. RSS feeds are provided by blog’s owners themselves so their information is syndicated for use on other blogs and websites. All feeds used on this site are from www.syndic8.com. They are all poker blog feeds. Many poker blogs report news items found on other blogs and news sites. This site is no different. Take a look at the blog empire created by www.weblogsinc.com. They link to all their blogs which include cancer, diabetes, technology, video games, etc. This blog does the same. Local law enforcement and attornies have been contacted regarding the threats, and harrassment by guinnessandpoker.blogspot.com and harrassment, false statements and inciting harrassment by www.kebzweb.com. Emails from both parties have been blocked since May 5, 2005 and are not being received.

It’s fairly clear from this jackass’ lead paragraph that s/he knows what s/he is doing is wrong, but is attempting to find ways to weasel out of it. Let’s take it point by point, shall we?
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Good OpinionJournal article by James Taranto about the so-called Religous Right. I wish everyone would read this who’s ever typed one word about the coming theocratic takeover of America by Bible-thumping, Jesus-shouting, cross-brandishing weirdos:

For the most part, the religious right has responded in good civic-minded fashion: by organizing, becoming politically active, and supporting like-minded candidates. This has required exquisite discipline and patience, since changing court-imposed policies entails first changing the courts, a process that can take decades. Even then, “conservative” judges are not about to impose conservative policies; the best the religious right can hope for is the opportunity to make its case through ordinary democratic means.

In the past three elections, the religious right has helped to elect a conservative Republican president and a bigger, and increasingly conservative, Republican Senate majority. This should make it possible to move the courts in a conservative direction. But Senate Democrats, taking their cue from liberal interest groups, have responded by subverting the democratic process, using the filibuster to impose an unprecedented supermajority requirement on the confirmation of judges.

…but I know they won’t — it’s easier to be sarcastic and dismissive.