If 17 matter here but not 50,000 there, it’s not about kids Status update: Flu: day the next. Facebook: still a parade of sanctimonious headlines. Running out of fucks to give. Yes, […]
Dead kids and funhouse mirrors
These aren’t the drones you’re looking for: The U.S. shift to droid warfare and surveillance
by Kevin Rogers In George Lucas’s Star Wars universe, droids are robots with tasks including translation, computing and repair work. The series’ most famous droids, C-3PO and R2-D2, take on these benign […]
Condoning murder: Holder's explanation of al-Awlaki killing woefully insufficient
Five months and five days after it killed a notorious American jihadist without due process of law, the Obama administration has offered an explanation of its actions in the death of al-Qaeda […]
Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. […]
Nota Bene #99: Heed the Peace Gnome
“You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.” Who said it?
Judgment and the burnt weeny terror plot
Did anyone expect this Obama character to be such a card? I seem to remember speeches and quips about judgment and its importance in leadership. No quibbles about that, it’s true and […]
Quotabull
I figured: if you want to go look in my mouth, go right ahead. — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking to 250 people inside an Iowa municipal hall that resembled a […]
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