The Most Prudish Common Denominator
I think we have far too many people around already who've found an excuse to think of themselves as different and better. I'm not ready to let self-righteous, scolding prudes pose as different and...
View ArticleA new way to donate to WikiLeaks
After over two years of being frozen out of the financial system, WikiLeaks can once again get contributions by credit cards and PayPal. An article in today's New York Times,Group Aims to Be a Conduit...
View ArticleMedicare also going over the "cliff"
I'm a doctor. I have a practice that's mostly Medicare. For several years it has been a "loss leader" for my other job, that pays better -- being Medical Director for a company that does drug trials,...
View ArticleOur gutless wonder "journalists"
If the Fourth Estate is the guardian of our democracy, we're in big trouble. I just readArmy Private Admits Giving Trove of Military Data to WikiLeaks By CHARLIE SAVAGE, Published: February 28, 2013...
View ArticleA Congress of Junkies
From an E-mail I got today:March 11, 2013—It costs a lot of money to win a seat in Congress, but how much exactly? MapLight has conducted an analysis of money raised by members of the 113th Congress...
View ArticleKathleen Sebelius earned a huge kickback
If and when she'll ever collect it isn't clear, but that hardly matters except on the question of whether or not she could be prosecuted. It makes no difference for the Medicare budget, for Medicare...
View ArticleSebelius's lawyers have until Monday to get a delay on Plan B
A federal judge who was appointed by Ronald Reagan has had it with Kathleen Sebelius. http://www.nytimes.com/...
View ArticleWe need some Atheist clergy and some Agnostic prayers.
Maybe if somebody occasionally gave some "Agnostic prayers" at the start of the town meetings in Greece, New York, the plaintiffs in this case would be satisfied.From today's New York Times...
View Article"Don't dump Edward Snowden on us!" -- Great Britain
I wouldn't call it 'burying the lede' but there was an interesting tidbit in the last two paragraphs of this story.Snowden's Leaks on China Could Affect Its Role in His Fate By KEITH BRADSHER...
View ArticleStates with photo ID voter laws should lose seats in Congress
From the Fourteenth Amendment: Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State,...
View ArticleUpdated title: #1-We spy;#3-Everybody else does
Michael V. Hayden, a former director of both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, pushed back at the European anger on Sunday in an appearance on the CBS program "Face the...
View ArticleIf Snowden disappeared, the CIA would be blamed
United States diplomacy may now have an interest in Edward Snowden staying where the world can keep an occasional eye on him. Not that we want him in the spotlight, but if he were to disappear, almost...
View ArticleA Wish List of Constitutional Amendments
Since we're sounding serious about a Constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, I thought I'd put together a wish list of other amendments.I'm not a Constitutional scholar or a lawyer, but I...
View ArticleShould food inspection be privatized?
Let the fox guard the hen house? What could possibly go wrong? This time, somebody who's just gone through the revolving door is suggesting we privatize food safety inspections....
View ArticleThose thugs in charge of "homeland security" just want to prove they can push...
Recently we've learned about how Glenn Greenwald's companion David Miranda was hassled at Heathrow Airport in London, about how British security authorities made a show of destroying two Mac Books or...
View ArticleDoes the NY Times censor the Public Editor's blog?
UPDATE: It took overnight, but they did post my comment to that blog. The Public Editor gets a hat tip for having more nerve than I gave her credit for.Is even the Public Editor of the New York...
View ArticleCan anyone help me set up PGP encrypted E-mail? It's the mark of an...
and I think we should all have it.Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-NSA) among others is trying to write into law a definition of a "professional journalist." Coming from her, it's probably part of an effort...
View ArticleGreat. The "do not call" registry is shut down.
I just got a junk phone call, a recording, on a phone number that's been on the Do Not Call registry for a nice long time. I tried to go to the "File a Complaint" page of donotcall. gov and...
View ArticleLock the committee in a room
One possibly useful thing to come out of the standoff on closing the government and not raising the debt limit is that both parties seem agreeable to a committee to come up with a long term plan for...
View ArticleEnrolling a 28 year old in Obamacare
Tonight my son and I got him enrolled through the Affordable Care Act, but we had to do it over the telephone. Our experience was a bit more frustrating than what YaNevaNo reports in this diary, which...
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