Since Senator Jeff Sessions’ website is, to put it mildly, borked, making it impossible to email him, I’m going to do it here, in ‘public’ manner, and I challenge you, Senator Sessions, to respond in kind. This is what my email to you would have said.

Today, thousands of websites have gone dark in protest of SOPA/PIPA legislation in what is undoubtedly the largest online, and international, protest in the history of mankind. The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act are two of the most damaging pieces of legislation to ever go before any legislative body in American history. By attempting to railroad these bills through, the MPAA, among other so-called ‘interest groups’ are attempting to buy, from Congress, the right to infringe upon the very basic principle of free speech, as well as the right every American has to not be punished for not committing a crime. If you allow these bills to go through, much less vote in favor of them, you are siding not only against the American people, but against all peoples, of all nations, and as we’ve seen time and again, anyone who opposes freedom in the name of corporate greed, no matter how successful they are short-term, will always fail, and will always find themselves cast aside as society progresses without them. Do the right thing, and don’t allow what the United Nations has already established as a human right, the freedom of the internet, be cast asunder because of corporate greed.

What happens when you take a Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon, pictured above) and magnify it, oh, I don’t know, 19,860 times? Well, you get my picture of the day/week/month, below. (continue reading…)