Folks will raise hell on Capitol Hill on Saturday afternoon to protest NSA surveillance outrages. Weather forecast is encouraging – and it should be a fun time. Among the 100+ sponsoring organizations are Antiwar.com and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. They have a bevy of excellent speakers slated. Last I heard, neither Obama nor Joe Biden […]
The government shutdown sometimes looked like nothing more than a gambit to give a paid vacation to federal employees. However, a new poll shows that “Just 19% say that they trust the government in Washington to do what is right just about always or most of the time, down seven points since January.” Here’s the […]
The Washington Post has had endless sob stories on the government shutdown. Maybe they should survey federal workers to determine whether the shutdown is also causing a coitus deficit. Regardless, taxpayers are still getting screwed. (The great Weyant cartoon is from the new issue of the New Yorker.)
This cartoon is from a secret National Security Agency document detailing how the NSA is seeking to destroy TOR – which allows for anonymous Internet use. That purported terrorist looks too well-coiffed for me to ever trust him. [from the Guardian’s excellent expose today on the NSA] On the bright side, at least I have […]
