NSA Wiretapping and Civilan Spying Scandal Explodes Many of us have been following along at home watching developments around illegal NSA spying the US government has...
yay olympics: two elderly women sentenced to re-education I have a feeling there’s a lot more like this going on than we know about. First, that they...
Lest We Forget: Remembering 1/31/07 Image at Boston University last night, via pt. It was exactly a year ago today when the Aqua Teen...
Top Ten Gov’t Ethics Scandals of the Year, Minus One or Two The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has put together a list of the top ten ethics...
Tiny Town Plays David to Blackwater’s Goliath This is an eye-catching post (with video), over at Crooks and Liars: Tiny Town Crushes Blackwater. It seems that...
The Macabre Version of Carry-On Liquid Solutions I’ve always joked about airports and carry-on liquid security theater bullshit, especially when you drain the container into —...
The Gonzales Eight: Where Are They Now? I’ve been following along with the “Gonzales Eight”: a handful of U.S. federal prosecutors who were fired from the...
Suicide Bombings In Halo 3 Quite a thought provoking essay about the sense and rationale of suicide bombing (by way of gaming) over at...
AT&T Worker Whistleblows On San Franciso NSA Spying Maybe I’m late to this, but I just read this news item about a (former) San Francisco AT&T worker...
Gadget: Enables Feds to Move Computers Without Powering Down This post at Engadget caught my eye: it’s about the HotPlug power station, which enables officers of the law...