We, the undersigned Next time someone asks you to sign an online petition, reflect that at petitiononline.com, there’s a petition demanding that Peter Jackson change the title of the forthcoming second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers, explaining that “The title is clearly meant to refer to the attacks on the World Trade Center.”

The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien, the second part of The Lord of the Rings, was originally published in 1954.

As of this moment, the “Rename The Two Towers to Something Less Offensive Petition” has 1,110 signers.

I love the Internet. I signed both of the online petitions in opposition to banning therapeutic-cloning research, the mostly-conservative-libertarian one and the mostly-progressive one. (They’re not contradictory, and they both deserve your support.) But honestly, sometimes effective political activism requires stepping away from the computer. [02:44 AM]