Obviously, I am opposed to us getting involved (which puts me firmly with the overwhelming majority of the nation, fwiw) in Syria, but I am willing to let you all give me your best arguments why I am wrong. Here is the resolution that came out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (.pdf): This joint …
I Cast PRISMatic Sphere On All The Things
From the “Oh and by the way” Department: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time. The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, …
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Afternoon Open Thread
This pretty much seems on purpose. We report, you decide “ehhh, close the hell enough.” Open thread.
Inspirational leaders
I’m becoming quite the scholar on the money side of the school reform industry. It’s a defensive move and it’s personal. We have a democratically-run public school district here and I’d like to hang onto it. I have not yet had to ask the ACLU to sue for access to correspondence between my local elected …
Afternoon Open Thread
Hard hitting journamalism from the Dee Cee Examiner: Why no, I can’t possibly imagine why the paper is ceasing daily publication and laying off most of its staff. Why do you ask? Open thread.
Oh It Just Got Real, Broseph
Lunatic central right now: SCARY ORGAN MUSIC AND LIGHTNING. UNSKEW ALL OF THE THINGS. It must be an INSIDE JOB. Stupid reality and its inherent liberal bias.
Instrumental, With Words (Self Aggrandizement Alert/Open Thread)
Update: going live in about 2 minutes Just in case any of y’all might be interested, I’m going to be talking with the really wonderful interviewer, Desiree Schell, about my almost twenty year old book, Measure for Measure, my attempt to retell the history of science through the stories of a series of musical and …
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