Glass Maze Every jumbled pile of person

Posts Tagged Police State

Interview with Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.” As soft-spoken a revolutionary as you’re ever likely to see.


Throwing Away the Key: Legally

Feingold reacts to Obama’s depressing desire to legalize indefinite imprisonment without trial: You have discussed this possibility only in the context of the current detainees at Guantanamo Bay, yet we must be aware of the precedent that such a system would establish. While the handling of these detainees by the Bush Administration was particularly egregious, [...]


Big Kindle Is Watching You

Here’s why I will never buy a Kindle: The other notable software feature added in Kindle 2 is one that mostly represents potential. At the new unit’s introduction, Bezos said that the device could sync both content and a user’s location within that content across multiple devices. At the moment, that means different versions of [...]


Alaska Trip, Day 1: Washington, DC

The TSA man stands on the other side of the magic portal. I smile, uncertainly, but he glares at me with some unstable concoction of impatience, distaste and contempt, and gestures. I interpret this as a summoning, and step through. But the magic portal is angry. It emits a series of high-pitched beeps. Beep beep, [...]