(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
I worry that Google's doodlers have been given a little time off, just at the time when something supremely animated was needed to lift America's dreariness on July 4.
Today, instead of some glorious and uplifting doodle, Google offers a very simple affair, the logo spelling out the words: "This Land Was Made For You And Me."
The only unusual accompaniment is that of an acoustic guitar, a homage to Woody Guthrie, whose "This Land Is My Land" includes the doodle's line.
Guthrie was very keen to offer of his guitar that "This Machine Kills Fascists." However, Google has taken the opportunity to attack not merely fascists, but a few communists (and even apparently democratic types) around the world who wish to tamper with the Internet.
For below the doodle is a link to the company's "Take Action" page, which is adorned with a video campaigning for Web freedom.
This is, naturally, the height of political correctness. It features quotes from the president, as well as presidential candidate Mitt Romney and former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. There's even room for Lucy Adams, 17, though time runs out before we hear a Latino or Asian voice.
Surely no one can dispute that a genuinely free Internet is a very fine thing -- even if, at times, it seem... [Read more]
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