City buses across America now covertly recording passengers’ conversations

This is rather bad timing: the Bush administration is holding a conference this week on the feasibility of “mini-nukes,” a small yield nuclear weapon. Today is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of  [more...]

I think that I might make a surprise visit to the troops in the next few weeks.

BoingBoing reports on a bizarre program from the Bush administration which — if we weren’t living in such bizarre, fascist, big brother times, would be laughable: President Bush’s family has made a lot  [more...]