-
Apologies
I’m a little behind on my blogging. My plan was to try to get in at least two posts on weekends, and a few throughout the work week, but this weekend Mrs. C and I are up at my parents. It’s turned into a little family reunion with all my brothers and sisters here, not…
-
Strike One …
Our fearless leader has had his first strikeout on domestic wiretapping outside of FISA. A federal judge has sided with the ACLU and others to find warrant-less wiretapping a violation of the First and Fourth Amendments, and and overstepping of the line between branches. Some of the better quotes from Judge Taylor:
-
Legal and Illegal Surveillance
I just got through reading a very nice post by Glenn Greenwald about the use of surveillance in foiling the British airline bombing plot and just had to quickly write about it (linked to from Dispatches). His major point, and it is a very good one, is that all surveillance in this operation, on both…
-
Red Alert! – a correction
I try to admit when I’m wrong and it looks like my interpretation of the kerfufle after Britain’s terrorist arrests may have been premature. I’m listening to NPR and am learning that in fact, Pakistan had arrested one of the plot coordinators a week before the big arrests, and that soon after this Brit intelligence…
-
Medicine for Dummies – An Introduction
I use technorati to keep a watchlist on the terms ‘arthritis’ and ‘rheumatology’. After all, this is my specialty, right? I should try to keep track of what’s being written our there! My initial thought was that I would pick up other doctors or researches talking about things in joint land, but I was disabused…
-
Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub
Hunh? Yeah, that was my first thought, too. But the author of this very interesting blog, Ed Darrell, was kind enough to refer to one of my posts and so I looked around his site a little. I like it! My first thought is that it rebuts the idea that the humanities and the sciences…
-
Project Steve
You know, it just struck me that I haven’t told you guys about Project Steve! This is a tongue-in-cheek project sponsored by the National Center for Science Education. Let me quote from their web page to describe what it’s all about: NCSE’s “Project Steve” is a tongue-in-cheek parody of a long-standing creationist tradition of amassing…
-
Coulter’s ‘Godless’ and the Like
I haven’t read Ann Coulter’s newest book – in fact I haven’t read any of her books – but I’ve read a lot about it recently. And I’ve read lots of quotes. (Check out this post and others at Talk Reason and The Panda’s Thumb for discussions of this book.) I find it hard to be very impressed or…
-
Coulter’s ‘Godless’ and the Like
I haven’t read Ann Coulter’s newest book – in fact I haven’t read any of her books – but I’ve read a lot about it recently. And I’ve read lots of quotes. (Check out this post and others at Talk Reason and The Panda’s Thumb for discussions of this book.)I find it hard to be very impressed or interested…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Steven Vlad 