And other things do… Anyway, this piece on “Aristocratization” from our friends at the Onion, even seven years later, is still funny (and no, that is not Stately Dog Manor in the picture).
Continue reading...August 2015
Reach out and touch someone
The Grey Lady gives us this exegesis on the now thirty-year collaboration between the National Security Agency and itself AT&T. Short answer: if it was technically feasible for AT&T (and to a lesser extent apparently, Verizon) to hand the government anything transmitted over telecommunications (telephone or internet traffic), it would appear that it was done. Which has been my surmise for some time: the only limits on the government’s ability to spy on you are technical, not “legal” let alone “constitutional.” And so the powerful– the government and its corporate partners (and yes, that is the word used), can, and...
Continue reading...Bread and Circuses: Delaware Edition
The Grey Lady treats us to its own version of NY Post style speculation/encouragement on the issue of whether Vice President Joe Biden will be entering the Presidential race against Eva Peron Eva Braun Hillary Clinton. Let me say that with Hillary Clinton, all things are possible. She has already been instrumental in giving us our first Black President (no, not her husband). Right now, she is on track to give us, quite possibly, our first Jewish/avowed socialist President, or possibly our first Latino President, or, maybe even our first woman President (Elizabeth Warren or perhaps some Republican… such as...
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