Some good news from the US Supreme Court.
We’re already very close to losing the battle against barbarity and ignorance in our “war on terror” (an Orwellian phrase if there other was one) by sacrificing the valuable assets that America proclaims to hold.

From Wired.
Here’s mine:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:>tracert nsa.gov
Tracing route to nsa.gov [12.110.110.204]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 […]

The Register reports that Republican Representative Peter King has accused the New York Times of treason for reporting on the secret investigations that the US government is performing on financial transactions between Americans and citizens of around 200 other countries.
Kevin Baker’s incisive essay “Stabbed in the Back! The Past and Future of a Right […]

As we’re getting settled down here, we have begun looking at buying a house again. An evening’s worth of research, however, is telling me that it’s going to get very ugly for awhile.

Sam Anderson writes for Slate about the strange appeal that Garrison Keillor and his radio show that continues to provide entertainment (and hope for talk radio beyond the grip of Clear Channel) for millions of Americans every week.