Category: Politics
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NY Licenses Unready for Gay Marriage: “You’re Making Me the Bride?”
Designers of forms must often consider a diverse range of possibilities to cover everyone that might need to fill the form out, especially when it comes down to issues of identity. I’ve been party to quite a few conversations of how or whether to prompt for one’s gender pronoun (Sex, Gender, or “I identify myself […]
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George W. Bush pulled out of an appearance in Denver scheduled for tomorrow upon learning that WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange had been invited to appear at the same conference via video. I wonder if this policy would apply to those who ran his torture program. Or those who ran his program of extraconstitutional kidnappings. Or […]
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Aggregating reports on protests in Egypt and other Arab Nations
The recent uprisings in Arab nations are pretty fascinating. I’m trying not to annoy everyone by writing incessantly about it, but for those who actually are interested, I recommend two sources for following these events as they unfold: First is my “jan25 reports” Twitter list– Egypt’s government has essentially turned off the Internet, cell phone […]
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Schneier on the TSA: “This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.”
Security expert Bruce Schneier concisely describes our broken approach to airport security: It’s not even a fair game. It’s not that the terrorist picks an attack and we pick a defense, and we see who wins. It’s that we pick a defense, and then the terrorists look at our defense and pick an attack designed […]
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Let’s take back our rights and our flights from the TSA.
The TSA has outdone itself this time with its invasive new searches: if selected, travelers must choose between having pictures of them naked taken via x-ray, having their genitals very aggressively handled, or not flying. Republican Congressman Ron Paul has introduced the American Traveler Dignity Act to the House of Representatives. (Read his announcement of […]
Zeke Weeks 