Is it too early in the morning to start in on the "hating stupid people" part of the day?

Google hates freedom, say conservative websites and blogs.

Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to commemorate special occasions. But now they are drawing criticism from conservatives for not being more patriotic. [Google] bathes its logo in stars and stripes every Independence Day, but last week's decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch -- the second "g" in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite -- is being blasted by some conservatives. Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day....

"I have no problem with Google commemorating obscure holidays or some of the trivial anniversaries that they note," [a conservative website's owner who chose to remain anonymous] said via e-mail, "just so long as they also make special logos for the more significant holidays."

You don't mind if they do things you don't care about, just so long as they do what you would do if you were in charge of their corporation which doesn't belong to you, Mister Conservative Man? I wonder if you could sound more hypocritical and self-important.

I'm thinking yeah, sadly, you probably could.

Damn that Godless Pinko Sputnik! It didn't fire up American scientific ingenuity leading to astounding developments in a variety of areas and culminating with a human being walking on the moon or anything, anyway! THE VOYAGER MISSION IS FOR LOSERS!