Hanging in the balance
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New renegade site: The Art of Mental Warfare
Warning: The site discussed in this post might be a scam. Check the comments before doing business with this site. I visited The Art of Mental Warfare tonight. It presents itself as a "clarion call to action for an apathetic nation." The site is based on a book of the same…
Should Demonstrably Intentional Internet Disinformation be Criminalized?
Okay, perhaps I'm being a bit harsh. But I found some videos on YouTube purporting to show simple homemade tricks for getting power from essentially nothing. The culprit calls himself HouseholdHacker These are very slickly directed and composed, very amateur-looking videos, full of straight-faced monologue and how-to demonstrations, illustrating nothing…
Internet Aimlessness Can Lead to Odd Treasures
One of my favorite current cartoonists is Brooke McEldowney. I discovered his work online a few years ago in the form of "A Fairy Merry Christmas". In the interest of copyright non-violation, I'll leave it to youse to Google up your own excerpts. This cartoon series was an NEA sponsored…
The kinds of questions the candidates are being asked
The news, reported by Jamison Foser of Media Matters, is depressing: Through 17 debates this year, roughly 1,500 questions have been asked of the two parties' presidential candidates. But only a small handful of questions have touched on the candidates' views on executive power, the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, or other…