Keith Olbermann | There Is Fascism, Indeed.

(Or see/read the original at MSNBC. The video is worth watching ( Read more... )

From New Scientist, 9 June 2006:
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the ( Read more... )

Blogs everywhere on the left side of the aisle seem to have their knickers in a twist over the White House website "Iraq News Archive". Why? Go peek. Go on. You want to, you know you want to. Then come back here ( Read more... )

Fascinating poster is now on MARC (Maryland Area Rapid Transit); this photo of a poster was taken on the commuter trains between Baltimore and D.C. --


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Numerous people have blogged about this -- even baron_elric said, "Yeah, I saw this list": Human Events magazine's (whackjob ultra-conservative) list of Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Century. But the list and the news of this last week have got me waxing nostalgic. Hang on ... I'll explain what I mean by that ( Read more... )

From AMERICAblog on my blog-crawl tonight, catching up on about a week of reading:
Just boarded my flight to dc and on the way into security at the atlanta airport there's a display of prohibited items. Included in the display is a big real-life chainsaw. Yes, no chainsaws are allowed in your carry-on baggiage. And who says we don't have great ( Read more... )

Why is no one talking about this bill, introduced in March 2005 ( Read more... )

It seems like yesterday that a marvelously self-possessed woman spoke to my young class at the National Cathedral School for Girls in a one-on-one group of special sessions at the Rosedale campus's retreat rooms; today she turns 71.

Happy birthday, Gloria Steinem. At the tender age of twelve or so, you told me that women could and should be ( Read more... )