Tag: kentucky

KY Rep files bill, wishes could do so anonymously

This just in: Kentucky has the Internet. 

However, at least one of their lawmakers doesn’t “get” it: “Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.”

The bill would require all Web sites to force anyone submitting content to register with their full name, address and email address.  Any sites that publish comments from the elusive Anonymous will receive fines ranging from $500-1000.

Who would be hit hardest by this bill?  Day planners and poetry Web sites, of course.  Also affected would be any site publishing the work of anonymous bard William Shakespeare, whoever the hell that was; Mark Twain (real full name: Samuel Clemmons); and the Federalist Papers.

To file your anonymous complaints, be sure to comment on the linked story.

North (sort of) and South: Civil War redux?

While last week we told you about the brewing civil war between Georgia and Tennessee, it seems they are not the only two states ready to fight brother against brother. Ohio and Kentucky are about to take up arms against one another–not over a land dispute for a resource vital to any state, but rather a big rock.

A rock sat at the bottom of the Ohio River for ages, only when the tide was low in centuries past would people climb on it and leave some kind of message. One man hauled it out of the river onto the Ohio side because it is an important part of the state’s history. As soon as Kentucky heard about it, the state got upset, because the rock was on the Kentucky side of the border.

The states’ houses of representatives have both passed resolutions about how important the rock is. No word as to whether U.N. peacekeepers will be asked to patrol the border.