Chris Soghoian, whose post on 8 million times the government has used GPS tracking on Sprint’s customers in the last year, has apparently flushed out the spying policies of many of the nation’s telecoms. Cryptome has them posted–though (as Mary points out) Yahoo has freaked out and initiated take-down proceedings. Yahoo isn’t happy that a [...]

And this is better than reconciliation how, exactly?

In the video posted here, current Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke is applying for his own damned job; the confirmation hearing is a interview with his prospective employer’s management representative team.

And he’s basically telling the team he is too stupid for the job – just fire him now.

• Good thing the Democrats control Congress.
• Weasel words.
• More like this, please.
• Optimism about Copenhagen.
• A date that shall live in infamy.
• It’s always about will with these people.

Sarah Palin, broadminded from the beginning.

Straight No Chaser — The Christmas Can-Can.

Does a beauty parlor have a civil right to provide customers with fish-nibbling of their feet?

Since Sunday is a day of contemplation, lazy late morning coffee and book review sections, you may leave your suggestions for best final lines from short stories in the comments. Dig out your Poe, Carver, O’Connor, Cheever, Dahl, Seuss, Wolff (Tobias) & Woolf (Virginia) etc.

In some of the most surreal reasoning yet, that dynamic duo Clinton and Gates argued for the Obama Afghanistan Timeline as a way  to make the Afghans step up but at the same time they are also telling the Afghans and everyone else that the July 2011 date is essentially meaningless. Or as Quqnoos, an [...]

The newest “alternative” to the public health insurance option is neither public, health insurance, nor an alternative option to private insurance companies. From what I’ve been able to determine about this worthless proposal, all it does is give the director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) some vague power to try to negotiate with private non-profit insurance companies for a slightly better bargain.