Per aspera

Today is the anniversary of The Moominite Terror Attack, when Boston authorities shut down half the city in order to “detonate” a few dangerous looking Lite-Brites, and apparently, some civic-minded locals decided to commemorate our Day that Will Live in Mockery.

I have nothing interesting to say, so I’m going to link you to interesting things others are saying:
Glenn Greenwald describes Your Harry Reid-led Senate in action:
Harry Reid — who has (a) done more than any other individual to ensure that Bush’s demands for telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping powers will be met in full and […]

Joel Johnson went on a web show sponsored by OCP, ostensibly for a conversation about gadgets, but went off and wouldn’t stop talking about Robocop.
Yesterday, I was invited to talk about gadgets onThe Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored exclusively by AT&T for distribution on the online AT&T Tech Channel. I eventually did […]

Since I didn’t post yesterday, making my planned week of daily posts a success for exactly one day, I’ll give you two today.
Here then is a link I’ve been meaning to post, to a review by Rick Perlstein of Jane Fonda’s War: A Political Biography of an Anti-war Icon, by Mary Hershberger. A little […]

Sam Adams is on the terrorist watch list?

Sam motherfucking Adams?
This isn’t my America.