Blogging & Writing

Why isn’t this a bigger story? via digg.comThe fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme — in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate race — will argue at trial that the Bush Administration and the national Republican Party gave their approval to the plan […]

Why do I find it difficult to believe limiting the FOIA is not to suppress terrorist info gathering but regular old citizen’s access to information? If protecting water sources was in the forefront of concern Tucson wouldn’t be drinking openly transported sludge they call CAP delivered water. from digg:The Defense Department is sending St. Mary’s […]

(From digg.com review:) With this win, Sawyer, of Mississauga, Ont., becomes one of just seven writers – and the only Canadian – to have won all three of the top science fiction awards for novel of the year. Other authors with the hat trick are David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim […]

With this win, Sawyer, of Mississauga, Ont., becomes one of just seven writers – and the only Canadian – to have won all three of the top science fiction awards for novel of the year. Other authors with the hat trick are David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson and […]

This was just “dugg” today…. We have to raise hell about this before they can slip it through! The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned. read more | digg […]

Glenn Greenwald, author of How Would A Patriot Act?, discusses the teetering stance we in America have as we dance on the top of a pivot point of unfathomable importance between liberty and oppression in a recent post The thug and intimidation tactics of the Far Right go mainstream. I’ve been beating this drum for […]