It’s official, or as official as a Google Fight can make it–War Beats Peace. See the details at googlefight (alas, may work better with IE than Firefox).
(This entry totally changed since it was eating the blog; apologies to anyone whose RSS feed I messed up.)
Despite my ordinary allergy to refurbished goods, the idea of getting a 21″ monitor for a little over $100 (including shipping) is strangely tempting.
But do I go with the Nokia 445Xiplus (Dot Pitch: 0.28 mm) or the Mystery Model NEC (0.24 mm horizontal pitch (0.28 mm diagonal trio dot pitch)?
Liberty is often lost in little drips.
The Citizen’s Guide to Refusing New York Subway Searches | FlexYourRights.org: While Flex Your Rights takes no position on the usefulness of these searches for preventing future attacks, we have serious concerns that this unprecedented territorial expansion of police search powers is doing grave damage to people’s understanding of their Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
In addition, as innocent citizens become increasingly accustomed to being searched by the police, politicians and police agencies are empowered to further expand the number of places where all are considered guilty until proven innocent.
Fortunately, this trend is neither inevitable nor irreversible. In fact, the high-profile public nature of these random subway searches provides freedom-loving citizens with easy and low-risk opportunities to “flex” their Fourth Amendment rights by refusing to be searched.
If you’re carrying a bag or package into the subway, here’s what you need to know and do in order to safely and intelligently “flex” your rights:
The 'few bad apples' canard took another blow today with the revelation that, Abu Ghraib Dog Tactics Came From Guantanamo.
Marty Lederman has an important post about the torture scandal, The Heroes of the Pentagon’s Interrogation Scandal — Finally, the JAG Memos. As Marty says, “These memos reveal the JAGs as the real heroes of this story.”
The memos are extraordinary. They are written by JAGs from the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines. As Senator Graham put it on Monday, these folks “are not from the ACLU. These are not from people who are soft on terrorism, who want to coddle foreign terrorists. These are all professional military lawyers who have dedicated their lives, with 20-plus year careers, to serving the men and women in uniform and protecting their Nation. They were giving a warning shot across the bow of the policymakers that there are certain corners you cannot afford to cut because you will wind up meeting yourself.”
It is fair to say that these accounts reflected sustained, uniform and passionate opposition to the OLC legal theories that were being foisted upon the military. Indeed, the tone of the memos is one of barely concealed incredulity, and outrage–disbelief–that a young legal academic from DOJ could sweep right in and so quickly overturn decades of carefully wrought military policy, using legal analysis that almost certainly would not withstand scrutiny outside the Administration and around the world. …
In particular, these memos eloquently warn of the grave harms that could result from such a radical shift in policies and legal understandings–harms not only to the prospects for nation’s efforts to stop terrorism, but also to military interrogators and officers who could face domestic and international prosecution for engaging in such conduct, and, most importantly, to U.S. forces who are themselves detained in this and future conflicts.
He’s also got the text of six key JAG memos. Essential reading.
No doubt some horrible trademark violation if used seriously. Googlification via Logogle.com (Hmmm. Trademark…) via boingboing (who call the process “Google-fying” and the end result a “Googloid” logo).
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