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

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

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!

So, the refrigerator light blew out.  Stop your bitching and run out to Target a get a new one. Christ. How old are you, ten?

As someone who often describes himself as something of a free speech absolutist (which is a bit of a misnomer, really—I’m closer to a free speech pragmatist with absolutist tendencies), I’ve really kept up only peripherally with the Google / China / US conflict.  In fact, it wasn’t until dinner last night, when my wife mentioned something to me about the DoJ handing out subpoenas to Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.—and

—and what?—and the sneaky little reiver just washed down my last 20 Klonopins with a bottle of Black Swan Shiraz and is busy flinging himself heavily into my bookshelves, singing the Allman Brothers’ “Sweet Melissa” over and over and over again at the top of his squeaky armadillo lungs like some trippy lunatic Vietnam-era rat trapped in shrapnel-pierced body armor? Is that what you were going to ask me?  Because

From the Arabic Dar al-Hayat (via Iraq the Model), “Iraqi tribes in Anbar arrest 270 Arab and foreign al-Qaeda members!”: The Anbar tribes’ campaign to rid the province of Zarqawi’s terror organization, al-Qaeda in Iraq is in its 2nd day and so far, 270 Arab and foreign intruders have been arrested. […] Usama Jad’aan, the leader of Karabila tribes in Qaim told al-Hayat that “the operation will continue to eliminate

Here’s Left-wing middle east expert professor Juan Cole, his bent little anti-Zionist, anti-Bush hardon engorged to the point of throbbing, trouser-tented blowback, luxuriating in Hamas’ “victory” in the Palestinian elections.  From Salon, “How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush?”: The stunning victory of the militant Muslim fundamentalist Hamas Party in the Palestinian elections underlines the central contradictions in the Bush administration’s policies toward the Middle East. Bush pushes

From Breitbart /AP: Colombia has dismantled a false passport ring with links to al-Qaida and Hamas militants, the acting attorney general said Thursday after authorities led dozens of simultaneous raids across five cities. The gang allegedly supplied an unknown number of citizens from Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and other countries with false passports and Colombian nationality without them ever stepping foot in the country, the attorney general’s office said in