WE TOOK THE DAY OFF TO FIGHT SOPA

We'll start posting again at midnight (ET).

Meanwhile, please, take a look at the Wikipedia page that explains why so many websites and blogs are having a down day.

These are the House cosponsors of this toxic legislation by Texas fascist Lamar Smith that would end the Internet as we know it:

Mark Amodei (R) NV-2
Joe Baca (Blue Dog) CA-43
John Barrow (Blue Dog) GA-12
Karen Bass (D) CA-33
Howard Berman (D) CA-28
Marsha Blackburn (R) TN-7
Mary Bono Mack (R) CA-45
John Carter (R) TX-31
Steve Chabot (R) OH-1
Judy Chu (D) CA-32
John Conyers (D) MI-14
Jim Cooper (Blue Dog) TN-5
Ted Deutch (D) FL-19
Elton Gallegly (R) CA-24
Bob Goodlatte (R) VA-6
Tim Griffin (R) AR-2
Tim Holden (Blue Dog) PA-17
Peter King (R) NY-3
John Larson (D) CT-1
Ben Ray Lujan (D) NM-3
Tom Marino (R) PA-10
Alan Nunnelee (R) MS-1
William Owens (quasi-Blue Dog) NY-23
Ben Quayle (R) AZ-3
Dennis Ross (R) FL-12
Steve Scalise (R) LA-1
Adam Schiff (Blue Dog) CA-29
Brad Sherman (D) CA-27
Lee Terry (R) NE-2
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) FL-20
Mel Watt (D) NC-12

Matt Cartwright, the progressive Democrat challenging corrupt corporate Blue Dog Tim Holden, one of the cosponsors, had this to say about the proposed legislation:

"In my opinion, SOPA is a bill so riddled with unconstitutional infringements on free speech and unconstitutionally vague criminalization of conduct that it is hard to believe its authors ever even read the one document that they swore to protect and defend."