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"There are aspects of practicing criminal defense that constantly bother me. Indeed, merely living in the United States often necessitates actions which offend libertarian principles. I pay taxes despite opposing taxation and most of what is done with that money. I hold licenses to practice law, to be married to my wife, to drive a motor vehicle, and to conceal deadly weapons. I oppose the requirement for all of these licenses. Although my philosophy is sometimes referred to as either hard-core radical libertarian or anarchocapitalist, I admit that in practice I make compromises and choose my battles carefully."
http://endervidualism.com/salon/intvw/victor.htm
"The Catholic Worker statement urged the bishops to call for 'an end to the U.S. practice of torture' of prisoners and 'an immediate end' to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Torture is a sin and war is a sin, the statement added. The Catholic Worker statement also offered counsel to and support for conscientious objectors; called for the closing of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and all 'secret military prisons' and 'torture centers'; and called on all Catholics and people of faith to engage in prayer, fasting and acts of nonviolent resistance 'to stop torture and to end the war.' The group invited others to join with many of them for nonviolent action in Washington Jan. 11 to call for the closing of Guantanamo. The day will mark the fifth anniversary of the first prisoners arriving at the prison. "
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=21762
"Bruce Guthrie, the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Senate, appeared on statewide television last week and did what Maria Cantwell hasn't done this election season--firmly aligned himself with the Seattle liberals and progressives."
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0643/guthrie.php
"In the decade since passage of Proposition 215, support has steadily grown, reaching a level of public consensus seen with relatively few issues. ... Politicians, particularly at the federal level, have been slow to adapt to the changing landscape."
http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1157875&ct=3198011
"Folks who don't even think there were humans on the planes that hit the World Trade Center have no problem eating a tomato spliced with flounder genes. Of course, genetically modified foodstuffs are safe. The experts tell us so."
http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/10/mickey_z_scienc.html
"The early warning signs they claimed would help me 'spot a recruitment effort' by the Cuban government, had been followed almost exactly by [FBI] Special Agent Alexandra Montiga, during our initial conversations over the phone. Other than that potential 'recruitment effort' or 'targeting,' no, nothing like that had ever happened to me before."
http://www.counterpunch.org/jimenez10242006.html
"Consumer watchdog group CASPIAN is demanding a recall of millions of RFID-equipped contactless credit cards in light of serious security flaws reported today in the New York Times. The paper reports that a team of security researchers has found that virtually every one of these cards tested is vulnerable to unauthorized charges and puts consumers at risk for identity theft."
http://www.newswithviews.com/McIntyre/Liz13.htm
"This is why Lauren Canario and her husband moved from Las Vegas to New London to join in a peaceful protest movement against the expropriation of Fort Trumbull residents. Are they 'outside agitators'? That's a question to ask their new neighbors. Is 'civil disobedience' of this sort necessary and proper? It makes a good counterpoint to ballot measures in several states intended to pre-empt similar fascist applications of eminent domain elsewhere."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2006/10/rented-thugs.html
"We need to remind ourselves of Albert Einstein's admonition: 'we can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.' ... Rather than dutifully going to the polls to select from a narrow list of options provided you by political interests that you neither know nor control, you might want to inquire into who is providing the cast of characters -- and writing the script -- for a performance you are expected not only to attend, but to cheer. ... For the same reason that Major League Baseball is benefited by the World Series whether the Cardinals or the Tigers win it, the political establishment is served by the outcome of the elections it runs, no matter who the candidate is."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer147.html
"In some cases, especially in societies with governments that attempt to justify their existence and their actions on 'democratic' grounds, many people may be taken in by this ideological sleight of hand. They may actually believe that 'we tax ourselves' so that the rulers 'we choose' can dispose of the loot in ways that 'we voted for,' failing to appreciate the gulf that separates this pristine ideological vision from the sordid facts on the ground. Once this sort of thinking becomes pervasive, however, it serves to sanctify specific forms of predation without any clear limit."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1838
"It is time to wake up. It is time to realize that anything less than pure liberty is not to be tolerated, that everyone knows best what is good for him- or herself. Everything the State does is not only a danger to our liberty, but also to our prosperity and to peace and security. Liberty is nothing to be exchanged for peace, prosperity and security, it is their precondition. This was true for the Hungarians in 1956 and it is still true today."
"The Czech Republic, which held general elections in June, still has no government. ... Notably, the sky has not fallen. The country's institutional framework remains sturdy, the economy continues to grow apace, and some Czechs wonder if they even need government at all."
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=102506C
"The U.S. military's reflexive use of heavy firepower, especially air power, has caused excessive Iraqi casualties and turned the Iraqi people against the United States. Recently, increased violence in Baghdad in response to redoubled U.S. security operations shows that U.S. forces are part of the problem in Iraq, not the solution. Until it was too late, the United States underemphasized winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, the most crucial element of waging successful counterinsurgency warfare."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1840
"These are stories of individual people meeting real human needs, using the power of credit and the market. They are meeting their own need for an income, and their neighbors’ needs for eggs, chicken and telephone service. Eventually, some of them become employers and meet their neighbors’ needs for employment."
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=348&fromemail
"Unlike some of his space-traveling peers, he never dreamed as a child of becoming an astronaut, though the subject fascinated him. 'That wasn't my dream,' he said. 'My dream was to get out of Hungary and go to the West and be free.' Forty years later, Simonyi represents the inspirational kind of bootstraps-success story that epitomizes space travel, said Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/290183_spacetourist27.html
"One of the best strategies is to 'vote the air'--meaning, when there's no libertarian candidate, don't vote for anybody in that position. It's also called 'casting a blank', and while it never gets reported by the round-heeled media, it communicates volumes to the politicians. Vote the air."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle390-20061022-02.html
"When a problem is pointed out, people demand a program of action as a solution. However, not every problem has a policy solution. When people no longer understand that civil liberties are more important than political agendas, they have lost sight of the belief system that protects them."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10262006.html
"In touting the measure, Bush declared that the 'CIA program' would now be allowed to continue and interrogators could return to performing 'their duties to the fullest extent of the law.' He presumably means that the CIA will once again be free to use reported techniques such as water-boarding - in which a prisoner is made to feel like he's drowning - or forcing shackled prisoners to stand in one place for 40 hours or more, or exposing naked prisoners to 50-degree temperatures and drenching them with cold water."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/22/Columns/We_sentenced_Japanese.shtml
"As long as the price of backing Israel is a few billions a year, the supply of weaponry, and vetoes in the United Nations, few will object. But the world is changing. America appears to be on the verge of becoming a greatly reduced power. Where will that leave Israel? ... If those with oil loathe America, no longer fear it, and have other markets, they are likely to say, 'Choose: Israel or oil.' Then what? In the long run there are solar power, oil shale, and so on. But we live in the short run."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/IsraeliFuture.shtml
"At every turn, it seemed, the British Establishment -- an overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male, closely-knit network drawn almost entirely from a tiny group of elite schools and universities, and ensconced in unassailable sway and privilege, including the full, dread power of the state -- was condemning a tiny, overwhelmingly powerless minority for the social and political ills of the nation."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=895&Itemid=135
"The fact is, electoral politics is not going to bring peace and freedom to America, certainly so long as the population believes in war and statism. We have no way of knowing which scoundrels will actually do more damage once they have power, since power itself has a tendency to corrupt no matter who holds it. The dirty little secret about democracy and our two-party system in particular is no matter how bad things are they can get worse, all under the subterfuge of reform and the people’s participation."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory125.html
"So how can we explain to ourselves the route that brings these big liberal names to become apologists for pre-emptive war, kidnapping, abolition of habeas corpus, wiretapping, torture, for the destruction of one-third of Lebanon and the deprivation of the means of livelihood, food, medicine and education of the several million Palestinians? ... If you're an American citizen, conformity is enforced by the giving and taking away of jobs, fellowships, travel, prize money and so forth."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061106/howl
"The Lobby isn't just in the business of peddling a glorified, largely fictional portrait of Israel as America's valiant little 'democratic' ally, which deserves unconditional support as it tyrannizes its Palestinian helots and rampages through Lebanon and occupied Palestine. It is clearly also performing another service for the state of Israel, namely espionage. Before the AIPAC investigation is through, it could cut a wide swath through the world of Washington politics, ensnaring members of both parties and exposing the true extent of Israel's fifth column in America."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9904
"In reality, the 'loophole' is nothing new. Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote about it in 2003, and the online magazine Slate covered it as major news in 2005. Soghoian points out that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) publicized the same security hole in April 2006. 'Perhaps Sen. Schumer will end up being my cellmate,' Soghoian said."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72023-0.html?tw=wn_index_3
"To state the obvious, much of life’s pleasure is diminished when you can’t speak. It has been tough. But have I mentioned I'm an optimist? Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first. So every day for months and months I tried new tricks to regain my voice."
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html
"If we had a free-market in education and the Second Amendment was respected, those parents who did not trust teachers with guns would send their children to gun-free schools and those who felt that a school with armed teachers provided a safer environment would reward schools who provided that service with their dollars. The training and evaluation of teachers could be done by private sector institutions of course."
http://www.mises.org/story/2354
"There are several nearly self-evident factors about our being cocoa, coffee and spices independent. Without a doubt, there would be job creation in our cocoa, coffee and spices industries, but consumers would pay a much higher price than they currently do. Therefore, nearly 300 million American consumers would be worse off, having to pay those higher prices or doing without, but those with the new jobs would be better off."
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/06/trade.html
"Now it's possible that the Iranian government is lying: it is, after all, a government, and governments around the world often tell lies. But it's also possible that the Iranian government is telling the truth. And opportunity cost is the relevant concept that helps us see how."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=9903
"Congress purported to act to protect the values of the American people when it passed the 'Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.' The result has been a serious blow to a growing industry. Whose values was Congress protecting? It had nothing to do with the American people at large. Congress was protecting the 'values' of casino owners and those who work in the state lottery racket."
http://www.mises.org/story/2358
"Any attempt to prohibit consensual activity is going to create black and gray markets. The legitimate, law-abiding gaming sites may now be out of reach for Americans, but that'll create a niche for truly unregulated sites. These sites will be far more prone to fraud, won't much care about the age of their customers, and customers who are defrauded will have no recourse."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/38321.html
"Instead of following a sound and time-tested 'pay as you go' policy, consumers, businesses, and governments have adopted a new creed -- 'buy now and pay later.' The mountain of debt that exists in the United States today and the excessive consumption that continues to enlarge that mountain are the direct results of central banks' activity and their need to grow more debt to avoid the inevitable bust that would follow if the debt growth were to stop."
http://www.moneyweek.com/file/20510/golds-not-a-barbarous-relic-central-banking-is.html
"Despite a dramatic rise in the region's economic freedom since the end of communism, Central European economies remain overregulated. ... Moreover, government transparency, parliamentary oversight, judicial independence and the strength of civil society remain relatively underdeveloped in Central Europe. Public spending is seldom transparent and bidding rules for government contracts are often subject to the whims of capricious public officials. Thus, overregulation and opaque public procurement have facilitated the creation of a whole class of people with political connections, who have made their fortunes in a dishonest way. "
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6737
"The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act--but the fear of the act. That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings. But why is the Republican Party imitating them? " Video and transcript at the MSNBC site, video only at YouTube, but they also have the full GOP commercial.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15392701/
"War profiteering by favored corporate cronies was one of the primary benefits envisaged by the Bush Regime as it drove so relentlessly and deceitfully toward the baseless and unprovoked attack. This 'waste' and 'overhead' was and is a key part of the whole operation. ... [T]he whole war has been a cash cow that will swell the personal fortunes and fuel the partisan agenda of the Bush Faction players, even if they are turfed out of office in 2008."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=894&Itemid=135
"Thus, the real purpose of the sanctions was what has become known as 'regime change' -- the idea of squeezing a nation and its regime economically so hard that either the ruler abdicates or his own people oust him from office and replace him with a U.S.-approved substitute (such as Ahmed Chalabi), at which point the sanctions would be lifted and U.S. foreign aid would flow into the country to 'rebuild it'."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610h.asp
"Clint Eastwood’s genius consists of rendering an equally poignant and disturbing picture of the two wars—the relentless savagery going on in the battlefield, where American and Japanese soldiers are engaged in primeval brutality that resulted in 27,000 deaths, and the damage that those conducting the politics of the conflict inflict on the truth back home by bamboozling the public into the perception that war is a beautiful expression of nationhood."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1842
"Though the October Surprise allegations supposedly were a myth, the information developed by the Task Force staff was kept under tight security. Congressmen were only allowed to review the evidence in a secure room under guard. The restrictions meant that many members were forced to rely on the Task Force staff that had been assembled largely by excluding anyone who thought the allegations might actually be true."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/102506.html
"Friends of freedom should doff their hats to the Hungarians this week. Fifty years ago, the Hungarian people bravely expelled Soviet tanks from Budapest and proclaimed their intention to create a democracy. Shortly thereafter, the Soviets returned with almost 5,000 tanks, killing thousands of Hungarians and chaining that nation back into serfdom to Moscow. But at least the Hungarians had the gumption to stand up and sacrifice their blood to cast off tyranny."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610j.asp
"[O]ne of the first winners of the Nobel Peace Prize was a man who consciously placed himself in the liberal tradition of Frédéric Bastiat and Richard Cobden. He was Frédéric Passy of Paris (1822-1912). The first year the Peace Prize was awarded, Passy shared the honor with Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross and originator of the Geneva Convention (which gives him a special relevance today). Passy must have been highly esteemed indeed for the Nobel committee to have awarded him and Dunant the Prize."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=880
"Currently, the 22-actor ensemble performs regularly in front of the military recruitment station in Times Square, in an 'agit-prop' street performance called No Sir! in which actors dance-march in place reciting choruses ironically paraphrasing the recruitment military video projected endlessly on the Jumbotron screen above. Their chants are even more effective while the news-crawl above announces the casualty count of 2,790 American soldiers and 650,000 Iraqi civilians. At that point the actors fall to the ground in an apocalyptic finale."
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3638
"Sean Smith, the award-winning photographer for The Guardian in London, who has put in several tours of duty in Iraq (before, during, and after the 2003 invasion), recently embedded with the 101st Airborne, for six weeks. He ended up chronicling attempts by the U.S. Army in the northern Iraqi region around Hawija and Tikrit to hand over duties, or at least work with, Iraqi military and police -- you know, helping them stand up so we can stand down. He’s now produced the video, which includes some of his photos, for the Guardian and the BBC." After reading descriptive text at E&P, follow the link to the video at The UK Guardian. Flash 8 presentation video w/audio.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003286588
"There is scarcely an acknowledgement anywhere in the Media Establishment that the Iraq War was an evil and misbegotten enterprise from the very beginning: conceived in greed and arrogance, sold by deceit, a criminal action by every legal and moral reckoning. As Hamlet said: 'It cannot and it will not come to good.' And it has not. Wars of aggression are evil things -- the 'supreme international crime,' as the Nuremberg Tribunal recognized -- and they will breed nothing but evil."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=897&Itemid=135
"What is to be said about an administration which dreams of policing outer space, when for three and a half years its legions have been stalemated in their occupation of a broken-down country with a pre-war GDP less than that of Fairfax County, Virginia? The Iraq war has been such a riot of fecklessness as to take one's breath away. One is hard put to find a more badly fought war in our history. The United States, remember, entered the war with its defense expenditure already nearly equal to that of the rest of the world combined. "
http://www.counterpunch.org/werther10232006.html
"The only sensible post-invasion scenario was, ironically, that once attributed to Donald Rumsfeld, to topple Saddam Hussein, give a decapitated army to the Shias and get out at once. There would have been a brief and bloody settling of accounts and some new regime would have seized power. The outcome would probably have been partial or total Kurdish and Sunni secession, but by now a new Iraq confederacy might have settled down. Instead this same partition seems likely to follow a drawn-out and bloody civil conflict."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1930544,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=27
"[T]he aim of Erasmus was to introduce a more rational conception of Christian doctrine, and to emancipate men's minds from the frivolous and pedantic methods of the Scholastic theologians. But when the Lutheran revolution came he found himself in the most embarrassing position. Those of the old order fell upon him as the author of all the new troubles. The Lutherans assailed him for his cowardice and inconsistency in refusing to follow up his opinions to their legitimate conclusions."
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/erasmus.html
"Liszt is documented as being the first person to ever attempt using music as therapy after visiting sick and demorilized patients in hospitals. The majority of Liszt's compositions breathe with a human beat of passion rather than a metronomic, or robotic, beat that is many times a slave to pure notation. "
http://www.d-vista.com/OTHER/franzliszt2.html
"The test of fascism is not one's rage against the Italian and German war lords. The test is -- how many of the essential principles of fascism do you accept and to what extent are you prepared to apply those fascist ideas to American social and economic life? When you can put your finger on the men or the groups that urge for America the debt-supported state, the autarchial corporative state, the state bent on the socialization of investment and the bureaucratic government of industry and society, the establishment of the institution of militarism as the great glamorous public-works project of the nation and the institution of imperialism under which it proposes to regulate and rule the world and, along with this, proposes to alter the forms of our government to approach as closely as possible the unrestrained, absolute government -- then you will know you have located the authentic fascist."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/young9.html
"Mahalia Jackson is viewed by many as the pinnacle of gospel music. Her singing began at the age of four in her church, the Plymouth Rock Baptist Church in New Orleans. Her early style blended the freedom and power of gospel with the stricter style of the Baptist Church. As a teenager, through her cousin's aid, she was influenced by such famous singers as Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Enrico Caruso and Ma Rainey, and her own style began to emerge into a more soulful expression."
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/jack-mah.htm
Biographical thriller action / adventure stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda; directed by Martin Scorsese. “Innovation and creativity that change the world come from people who see things from a novel angle. That unique perspective often has other implications. Howard Hughes possessed genius, ambition, drive and a distinctive viewpoint. However, he also had some personality features which few people would want to have. Martin Scorsese created this brilliant biography showing Hughes' very productive mostly pre-WWII years.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/aviator_2004.htm
21st Century vinyl -- a new News service with strange Mars related events
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=144673
"Too often for my taste, cloak and dagger doings are portrayed with a sense of romance and style that seem to belie the risk inherent in the activities. I've often wondered what it's really like to be part of an underground, where lives are literally on the line and seemingly innocuous occurrences could be anything but. A dear friend's gift of Invisible Allies has allowed me a revelatory glimpse into such a system."
http://www.endervidualism.com/salon/books/solzhenitsyn.htm
"We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ('For sale: baby shoes, never worn.') and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves."
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
Animated flash cartoon video w/audio
http://www.newsday.com/media/flash/2006-06/23671673.swf
"Maybe we've been too lenient with enemies of the state. A period of stark repression might be a rich and rewarding experience for all of us. ... What if Vice President Dick Cheney does not wish to give up power two years from now? Maybe he has other priorities. If an enemy of the United States - a Democrat, for example - appeared to be on the verge of election, perhaps Mr. Cheney, for the good of the country, would be forced to take the threat seriously and head for an undisclosed location and invoke his war powers and shovel a few thousand traitors into camps and call up his friends at Diebold and program the election results that are best for the country, or call the whole thing off."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102606P.shtml
"Mr. Bush's guest voter program received mix reviews from congressional Democrats, many of whom believe that glitches in the so-called naturalization/voting booths could lead to invalid election results. In particular, critics have complained that in an early prototype of the booth, the translation of the phrase 'I want to be a U.S. citizen' appeared as 'Vote for all Republican candidates with this lever'."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6614
Animated flash cartoon video w/audio
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/stoolie.html
"While Lane is considered to be part of the 'Old Right,' these points help clarify how I view the Libertarian Left. For the question of man's freedom distingusishes libertarianism from authoritarianism. And the question of man's brotherhood distinguishes Left from Right. But the questions aren't black and white. The opposite of love could be hate, or it could mean fear, or indifference. Likewise, the opposite of 'all men are free' isn't always 'no men are free.' Sometimes it's 'some men are free' or 'sometimes men are free'."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/10/freedom-and-brotherhood.html
"As functional MRI came into use in the 1990s, neuroscientists rolled people under the magnets to track blood flow to specific parts of their brain. They learned that a small part of the visual cortex -- eventually dubbed the fusiform face area -- showed increased blood activity whenever a subject looked at a face. Researchers had discovered what appeared to be a computational machine devoted specifically to processing faces."
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/blind.html?pg=1
"The technology in question replaces the aluminum or glass platter in your hard disk drive with a 'platter' made from stainless steel or titanium foil that is 22 microns or 25 microns thick, respectively. The materials cost more but we use so much less of it (the disk is so incredibly thin) that the total material cost is substantially less. This 'floppy' material has the same kind of magnetic coatings used on standard disk drives and our drives live on the same technology growth curve as those others. The way we obtain greater storage density is simply by putting more platters in a drive (say 12-15 instead of 4-5 in an enterprise 3.5-inch drive) because they are much thinner and can be stacked closer together."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061026_001143.html
"I have long believed that consciousness or sentience is overrated. It seems to me that most of what my brain does is unconscious, and what conscious activity there is appears to be mainly taken up with rationalization of what my unconscious mind has already decided."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/10/wherein-i-establish-that-i-am-eclectic.html
"I think my favorite ads nowadays would have to be the ones where they try to artfully weave the 'I approved this message' shtick into the message, as if they were going to say it even if they didn't have to. If there were Emmys for campaign ads, they would be called the Slimeys, and these ads would be the winners every time."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002383.html
"If Robert Louis Stevenson were alive today, he'd know exactly how to refer to prions -- nature's equivalent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Most of the time, these mysterious proteins go about their business, serving some unknown function in a variety of species. But every now and then, prions (pronounced PREE-ons) twist their shapes and become miniature destroyers, infecting other prions in their path by merely coming in contact with them."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,71971-0.html?tw=wn_index_4
"For the sake of those vulnerable 16-year-old boys and girls who come to Washington each year, we should abolish the congressional page program immediately. I'm not referring only to the danger posed by the sexual predators in Congress. There's a more widespread danger that hardly anyone cares about: the congressional page program encourages high schoolers to worship and lust for power."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610i.asp
"Seems the GOP can't stop thinking about sex here in the last days of the campaign. The Foley scandal really seems to have flipped them into batshit crazy mode. So we get ads expressing moral outrage that Harold Ford once attended a Super Bowl party where Playboy Playmates were present. We get the Allen campaign's attempt to sexualize a scene from Jim Webb's novel. We get President Bush signing a bill for 'National "Character Counts" Week,' just before jetting off to raise money for Rep. Don Sherwood, a family values crusader who not only admitted to having an affair, but recently settled a lawsuit accusing him of continually physically assaulting his mistress."
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