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This week’s winner of the Internet
Who was it who said there’s a sucker born every minute: P.T. Barnum?* Roger Ailes? Well, whoever it was would love this one: I saw the story on the net Monday—actually I only saw the headline—...
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Reality check, comedy break
Just two quick notes on what Tunku Varadarajan cleverly calls the “belligerent unenlightenment” of a portion of the American population: First, the former assistant manager editor at The Wall Street...
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The White House is clocking my phone calls—-yours, too
I am in the midst of the keyboard equivalent of verbal spluttering because I’m so damn mad at this news, so I’ll let Twitter tell you just like it told me: RT @emmagkeller: Revealed: NSA collecting...
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Anger is an appropriate response when Big Brother goes too far
Some bullet-pointed thoughts while trying to digest the news that the government has apparently been logging all of my phone calls for years now…all of yours, too and reading my email and thumbing...
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Where do we go from here
It’s been an amazing couple of days. Thanks to leaks of government documents and the hard work of some reporters, we’ve learned that the government has been collecting data on our telephone...
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Meet Ed Snowden, and other notes from a remarkable week in privacy and...
As they used to say on every Top 40 rock ‘n’ roll station ever, the hits just keep on comin’: After a stunning one-two punch of secret spying revelations last week, one thing that I hadn’t really...
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Civil disobedience + free press = privacy + freedom
On a lazy Sunday reading the paper and following Ed Snowden around the world on Twitter, I came across a couple of gems… It is my hope that the revelations of the extent of U.S. government spying on...
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After all, it’s all about the kids
It’s not that I don’t like the Olympics, it’s that I am thoroughly disinterested in the Olympics. Oh, I like athletic competitions just fine, both watching them and taking part in them, and I’m fine...
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