Here. Today I’ll let Powerline do some of the heavy lifting on the NSA “domestic spy” story so that I can get out of the house for a bit. Here, they raise some interesting points about the rather directed coverage of the story from WaPo , Newsweek, and, naturally NYT. An excerpt: The most deeply misleading aspect of the Times article […] is its treatment of the federal court precedents
January 29, 2006
January 29, 2006
“Congressman Rewrites the History Books – Literally”
The New Editor’s Paul Geary has a post on a report by the Lowell Sun (MA) that congressional staffers for US Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) altered the congressman’s entry in Wikipedia by eliminating references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest (the largest of any member in the US House): The Lowell Sun reports that over 1,000 changes from congressional IP addresses
January 29, 2006
“Big Google is watching you”
I offer this as a companion article to yesterday’s post on Google and their very public defense of privacy (and trade secrets). Some good background info here for those just now catching up with the story. From The Sunday Times (UK): ‘Don’t be evil.†That’s the motto of Google, which was founded in 1997 and is now worth $129 billion (£72 billion), making it the fastest growing company in the
January 29, 2006
The “Saturday night alone as a thirtysomething” haiku
You know something? When Journey wanted to rock, they really kicked ass, man!
January 29, 2006
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR
No one had better accuse RICHARD GOLDSTEIN of being a PJM shill, that’s for sure. Because let me tell you something: Them’s fighting words, baby! And RICHARD don’t roll like that…* **** correction made. PJM has now correctly identified me by the preferred spelling of my name, “JEFF”. GLORY BE THE SPEED OF THE BLOGOSPHERE!