Originally, I read the news and thought, "Hmm. Sounds like people are making conclusions before they see the evidence." I figured, as investigations are under way, I would wait for those investigations to conclude.

I have heard so much cynical misinformation and held my tongue. (On Livejournal. I did throw some bent pennies into a discussion ( Read more... )

Thinking about health care? This article in The Washington Post has a few interesting things to say ( Read more... )

Ben Wallace, ex army officer, and employee of one of the firms that makes the body scanners proposed in England, and existing in 19 airports in the U.S. says the scanners are pretty useless, "... in all the testing that we undertook, it was unlikely that it would have picked up the current explosive devices being used by al-Qaeda ( Read more... )

We knew it was gonna happen. Not because your Mom's a whore (she is), but because no government can resist the appearance of acting quickly and decisively. Gordon Brown has promised to install electromagnetic imagers at every British airport ( Read more... )

Amazing! Shocking!

Meh. We already figured.

It appears kids in Britain are using proxy sites to get around school-imposed restrictions on their web-browsing. I can't doubt the same thing is happening in the U.S. and on every computer in Iran & China, just as a matter of course ( Read more... )

If you're like me, you've heard people say, "Cap and Trade" a lot, but you haven't heard anyone explain what it means.

Here's how BBC News defines it: An emission trading scheme whereby businesses or countries can buy or sell allowances to emit greenhouse gases via an exchange. The volume of allowances issued adds up to the limit, or cap, imposed ( Read more... )

My current list of Top Ten Worries:
(Please bear in mind that this is a list of worries, not a list of sound rational arguments)

( Top Ten Lists Are Fun! )

Maj Nidal Hasan, a US Army major, apparently killed 13 people and injured 29 at Fort Hood in Texas last week. They don't think it was a terrorist plot, even though his name sounds Muslim. You see, because he is an American, and lives in the land of the free, all of his communications were being monitored."There were between 10 and 20 ( Read more... )

22 CIA agents have been found guilty of kidnapping by an Italian court ( Read more... )

He got an 8 year sentence.

US District Judge Michael Mihm said he did not believe al-Marri's contrition ( Read more... )