Category: long story short

In the Reuters report on the ruling against warrantless wiretapping, warrants are not mentioned until the eighth paragraph. Court rules secret wiretaps violate rights, Reuters, 8/17/06 Absent the issue of warrants, what was the judge so mad about? She is quoted: The wiretaps “violated…civil rights,” “freedom of speech, protection against unreasonable searches, and a constitutional…

I don’t know why they say Seattle is rainy because, like, I was there today and it was sunny and hot – over 90 degrees, so I hear. Also, the space needle? Totally pointy.

Note: I did do some “cherry-picking” for the data I liked best! Also: PIPA (Program on International Policy Attitudes), the source of this report, is well regarded as credible. –David Reported by WorldPublicOpinion.org (Publication of the Program on International Policy Attitudes) Near East Consulting (NEC) poll of Palestinians, Jan. 27-29, Hamas position calling for the…

Cecil filled me in on something cool and old friend of ours, Brendan Fletcher, is doing. I remember him hiking the Sierra Nevada (or some similar west-coast trail) years ago. Apparently now he and his partner Emma Nicholas are “attempting to walk the length of the Great Wall of China.” They are blogging the experience…

I haven’t lifted a finger to post here in so long, and so much been’s going on lately. (And just now I *tried* to post and somehow lost my window.) Like, for instance, we just got back from a week in New York. (I posted some pictures from the trip at Flickr.) And before that…

I would suggest that the press should just swear off of the use of “Squabbling” and “Bickering,” especially in headlines. For a while, I thought they were routinely applied only to political differences among foreigners, especially third-world foreigners. But I see they also appear fairly often applied to political differences–even convictions–that arise within the US.…