Foxes guarding the NSA henhouse
Stunning news by The Atlantic:
Last Friday, President Obama promised a review of current government surveillance practice by an independent group of outside experts. Turns out that the review group will be established by the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, who's come under fire from Congress for erroneously telling legislators that the U.S. doesn't "collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of million of Americans."
What Americans Want
The Onion has taken a survey and determined what Americans want.
Nation Just Wants To Be Safe, Happy, Rich, Comfortable, Entertained At All Times
Why non-believers don’t exist
Matthew Hut's "The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking" is one of the most challenging and well-written books I've read in the past decade. His premise is that ALL of us believe in "magical thinking," which he defines as the "mingling of psychological concepts with physical ones" (as opposed to another approach, which would have been "holding beliefs that contradict scientific consensus--he defends his approach on p. 7 of his book). In this article at Huffpo, Hutson elaborates:
Thanks to evolved habits of mind, we suspect the reality of essences, voodoo, luck, mind over matter, ESP, the soul, karma, and destiny. We attribute mental properties to nonmental phenomena (treating natural events as purposeful, say) and attribute nonmental properties to mental phenomena (treating thoughts as having force in the world). We mix up the realms of mind and matter. What's more, such illusions are not all bad--they can provide a sense of control over the events around us and a sense of meaning in life. So before you call someone with far-fetched beliefs stupid or crazy, read on and check out 13 of the many reasons the supposed "non-believer" is just one more figment of the imagination.What follows, I guarantee, is that everyone of you will realize that you are believe in magical thinking.
Obama tries to steal some of Edward Snowden’s limelight
From Wonkblog: Binyamin Appelbaum, an economics reporter for the New York Times, summed it up sharply on Twitter: “Obama is really mad at Edward Snowden for forcing us patriots to have this critically important conversation.”
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