What I Haven't Been Blogging About In The News
They landed a plane in Philadelphia because a man started praying. They thought he was going to blow the plane up.
We could get a new bomb detector soon that won't violate your privacy. Another bonus, apparently: it will work. (As opposed to the body scans, which don't.)
A group of republicans, plus Joe Lieberman, has decided that they will attempt to pull funding for the 9/11 trial. Arguments based on the rule of law don't seem to impress them much.
These are the guys who still like Guantanamo. If you listen to what they say, that is. I might be a skeptic. I think they don't particularly care about Guantanamo, 9/11, terrorists, or the USA. To me, they sound willing and fully able to use any device that will get them votes and/or money. Freedom, the rule of law, privacy, and habeas corpus ... they don't care about these things either, they just wound up in the way.
Meanwhile, on the are-you-fu**ing-kidding-me? front, Men At Work have been found guilty of plagiarism for using a flute riff from the Kookaburra Song (written in 1934), in Down Under. If you're keeping score, that means paying respect to your national culture is plagiarism in Australia.
We could get a new bomb detector soon that won't violate your privacy. Another bonus, apparently: it will work. (As opposed to the body scans, which don't.)
A group of republicans, plus Joe Lieberman, has decided that they will attempt to pull funding for the 9/11 trial. Arguments based on the rule of law don't seem to impress them much.
These are the guys who still like Guantanamo. If you listen to what they say, that is. I might be a skeptic. I think they don't particularly care about Guantanamo, 9/11, terrorists, or the USA. To me, they sound willing and fully able to use any device that will get them votes and/or money. Freedom, the rule of law, privacy, and habeas corpus ... they don't care about these things either, they just wound up in the way.
Meanwhile, on the are-you-fu**ing-kidding-me? front, Men At Work have been found guilty of plagiarism for using a flute riff from the Kookaburra Song (written in 1934), in Down Under. If you're keeping score, that means paying respect to your national culture is plagiarism in Australia.