Detainees drugged without medical reason--U.S. government violating its own rules in the process.

The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and ( Read more... )

Living off the fat of the land? Arrest in theft of grease

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Baby locked up at Honolulu airport dies

Luaipou Futi and a nurse banged on a locked door at Honolulu International Airport Friday morning and begged for medical help for Futi's 14-day-old son, who had flown here from American Samoa for heart surgery and was becoming distressed in the warm room ( Read more... )

For fellow fans of House, M.D.: The Metaphorical Medicine of House. Includes bits of interview with the technical advisor for the series.

The 2007 International Privacy Ranking from Privacy International. According to this report, the U.S. privacy record isn't the worst in the world: in 2007, this country actually ranked better than Singapore ( Read more... )

So, a bunch of people have been linking to this article recently, all about a Russian blogger (a LiveJournal user) who was charged with "inciting hate" against police officers in his journal several months ago. People who have been linking to that article have been claiming that it's evidence of SUP's being in bed with Putin's government, but is ( Read more... )

I had plans to Go Out and Do Stuff today, but for a change of pace it wasn't lack of energy that stopped me. No, I had to stay here to make sure that the phone company's technicians actually fixed my landline instead of getting sidetracked into working on the landlord's instead. (Not that I have anything against him having a working phone, mind ( Read more... )

Since multiple people have been following the story of how "FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here", this seems to be a good time to re-link to this Village Voice piece from 2002.

So, who wants some take-out pizza?

In spite of the fact that I woke up early this morning (or perhaps because of that fact), I've been moving much too slowly to do the thing I wanted to do before going off to do that other thing I want to do. So instead, I'm reading stuff online and wondering when the tea will kick in.

One thing I ran across is an article challenging guidelines on ( Read more... )

For those of you who aren't avoiding LJ in an attempt to avoid Harry Potter spoilerers: You probably already know that lj_biz issued clarifications about LJ policy yesterday, but you should also be aware that they have since clarified the clarifications. Yeah, HP fanfic authors are going to be so pleased when they get back ( Read more... )

Now wearing: Black shirt, blue jeans, white socks, boring underwear, and glasses I would really like to get replaced.

Today's television: Smallville finale: It was enjoyable, but certain characters should be deader than they probably are.

Supernatural finale: Oh, Dean! And [spoiler]! And ohh, [spoiler]!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! ( Read more... )