The Lucky One

So, The Lucky One was everything I expected. Zac Efron was hot, way hotter than usual even and it was based off a Nicholas Sparks book so lots of romance and conflict, plus cute dogs, woo!

However, one of my favorite touches will probably go over most people's heads.

Me: Did you see the Ben Grimm appearance?

(Mom thinks for a moment.)

Mom: I did! Wasn't he playing with him on the table?

Yep, my mom knows Marvel people, some even by their real name but anyway, the cool part about that is that the little boy's name is also Ben so Ben was playing with Ben.

I wish there was a cool superhero named Erica.

Now, when we went to Chimpanzee, I had to wait quite a while for popcorn so my mom waited off to the side and then I noticed the exact moment that she noticed the D-Box tester was playing The Avengers trailer, over and over. As I waited, I watched as she moved closer and closer to the screen. By the time, I got my popcorn, she was right behind the two seats and didn't even notice that I had walked up right beside her. We've decided we're going on the 5th. She gets off at 7.

Mom has also decided that since she knows nothing about Dark Shadows, the trailer looks funny and she wants to see it. I will pretend that it is a completely new entity and any similarities with previous fictional characters is entirely coincidental.

CISPA is the new SOPA and here we go again....

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Here's their next move: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, would obliterate any semblance of online privacy in the United States.

And CISPA would provide a victory for content owners who were shell-shocked by the unprecedented outpouring of activism in opposition to SOPA and Internet censorship.

The House of Representatives is planning to take up CISPA later this month. Click here to ask your lawmakers to oppose it.

SOPA was pushed as a remedy to the supposed economic threat of online piracy -- but economic fear-mongering didn't quite do the trick.

So those concerned about copyright are engaging in sleight of hand, appending their legislation to a bill that most Americans will assume is about keeping them safe from bad guys.

This so-called cyber security bill aims to prevent theft of "government information" and "intellectual property" and could let ISPs block your access to websites -- or the whole Internet.

Don't let them push this back-door SOPA. Click here to demand that your lawmakers oppose CISPA.

CISPA also encourages companies to share information about you with the government and other corporations.

That data could then be used for just about anything -- from prosecuting crimes to ad placements.

And perhaps worst of all, CISPA supercedes all other online privacy protections.

Please click here to urge your lawmakers to oppose CISPA when it comes up for a vote this month.

Thanks for fighting for the Internet.

-Demand Progress



The dark side is not giving up so we must continue to fight the good fight.