I found the Iowa Caucus results rather satisfying. However, I arrived too late to see the speeches and...dumbass me...I forgot to tivo them. I shall have to correct that ( Read more... )

Oy veh.

I found this interesting on last night's All Things Considered.

AT&T Wiretap Whistleblower Fights Senate DealMany will not find this news, but I find it very interesting that all our phone traffic was being copied to the NSA's systems. And it covered Sprint, Qwest, etc ( Read more... )

So, according to /., Opus is not being carried by their home newspaper (the Washington Post) and a number of other newspapers around the country for a few sundays. (This Sunday and next)

I presume they are afraid of significant backlash.

Here's today's OpusI don't find it particularly offensive. It's not exactly an uneven attack. It's more ( Read more... )

No reincarnation without the government's permission. This law seems so Ministry of Magic, don't you think ( Read more... )

Interesting link: This will start rolling out pages sometime in 2008. The Encyclopedia of Life. An encyclopedia for every single living (known) organism on this planet. The mockups of it look really cool.

Interesting Debate: The Jesus Picture in the Courthouse. It's an interesting case, in that it really divides some folks. If the court rules ( Read more... )

Before I begin to provide my .02, I'll just attach the Libby Indictment for reference.

There's a lot of interesting back and forth going on here at the Volokh Conspiracy.

Here's a quick blurb from Professor Michael Dorf of Columbia.

So many things to consider here. Far more for my non-lawyer brain to dilute appropriately. ( Read more... )

Coming to me by way of the Volokh Conspiracy, the Washington Post has been doing some articles on Dick Cheney and how he has taken on an unusually potent role in the White House. You can see the links to the articles hereThere is no question, he appears to be rather cunning. Despite all that, there are a few cases in which his penchant for secrecy ( Read more... )

One beltway insider is quoted saying the neo-cons are "weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness" of Libby's sentence. And there's the rub. None seem the least weighted down by the sheer, glaring unfairness of sentencing soldiers to repeated and longer tours of duty in a war induced by deception. It was left to the hawkish academic Fouad Ajami ( Read more... )

You so Crazy!

Thanks to Jesus' General, this was brought to my attention. I rather like the good General's proposal.

I'd like for Chuck to explain how Christian it is to send thousands of our soldiers to risk death to liberate a people who do not seem to want us there.