Hollings

Kos is happy to see that Senator Hollings will be running for re-election again:

He may be old, but he’s probably the only Democrat capable of winning a Senate seat in South Carolina. Thankfully, he wants to run for reelection.

I’m not. Hollings is a creature of the intellectual property absolutists. The bills he has sponsored over the last two years would destroy open source in the US, make the general purpose computer illegal, hand the smidgen of our culture not already under corporate control over to FOX and Disney; and not incidentally, put me and millions of my fellow nerds out of work forever.

If he’s the best the Dems can do in South Carolina, well, too bad for the Dems, says I. No matter how partisan I may wish to be in the Bush era, I have to draw a line somewhere. No politician who supports this sort of luddite garbage will ever get my vote.

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