An unprecedented Internet revolt was carried out today by millions of fans of this blog. Threatened by the implications of proposed legislation in the United States--the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA)--legions of Pointless Digressions followers from Tahiti to Tuktoyaktuk bombarded the US Congress with threats of their own; e.g., we will stop watching "Cupcake Wars," we will enter Bev Oda in the Republican primaries, we will flood your airwaves with Stephen Harper performing the Anne Murray Songbook. One protester Twittered, "PIPA is a pip! What intellectual property do they have to protect? Reruns of The Jetsons? Nixon's State of the Union addresses? The Best of Sonny and Cher?"
Thoroughly cowed, the sponsors of SOPA and PIPA immediately retreated. "What were we thinking?" said one. "It must be that free wine they give us in the Senate cafeteria," said another. "Let's get back to our real job, blocking anything reasonable proposed by the President."
Meanwhile, the Pointless Digressions fans have formed an organization of their own: Keep Our Online Koming (KOOK).
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