• May 28, 2012

wiretapping

Here’s a crazy thing, as opposed to all the other crazy things: We read those reports about the iPhone tracking your every move and then saving the entire geographic/time details of your daily activities, and we thought Hmm that sounds familiar guess it’s old news and then the editor of Metro Jacksonville wrote and reminded [...]

Oh yeah, by the way, the federal govenment now wants to watch you conduct your Facebook chats and such. Will it follow you on Twitter?! No, mostly Barack Obama will just install a chip in Glenn Greenwald’s brain that stops him from reporting THIS KIND OF STUFF: The new law would not expand the Government’s [...]

Fifty years ago yesterday, Americans gathered around the boob tube to watch John Kennedy debate Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was sweaty and forgot to powder his nose, so he lost for being so ugly — if he was handsome he probably would have won, which he eventually did, in 1968, “when it mattered.” Point is: [...]

After an exciting day of voting, the Senate has voted in favor of the new FISA surveillance bill, 69-28, and George Bush will now sign it into law in his secret masturbatorium.

by Jim Newell  6:53 pm May 19, 2008