Arthur D. Hlavaty

It is hard to comment on the Middle East without sounding like Buchanan Fodder or a Netan Yahoo, but I’m glad the scary-named group won this court case, even though it means agreeing with The American Conservative.

A government agency tracked teenage migrants’ periods. They further demonstrated the Trump influence by being unable to spell menstrual. [The Slot]

When the FBI looked for the Unabomber at TSR

Thanx to File 770

Bruce Schneier on Wikileaks taking a leak on the CIA. I’m still waiting for them or someone like them to get their hands on those tax returns the American people have a right to see so everyone will know how much of Trump’s rump the Russians own.

The Times gets one right.

Thanx to Mercury Rising.

"People’s reproductive and procreative plans and decisions are none of your business."

Thanx to Metafilter

That "uncertainty" is the key. It is how you erode inconvenient freedoms and the institutions designed to protect them from within.

--Charles Pierce

Richard Nixon was kicked out of the White House because his people treated the Democratic Party like a black group or a peace group. Not learning from history, the CIA has treated Senator Dianne Feinstein like an ordinary citizen.

Lenny Bruce said that if we ever do legalize weed, the law that did it would be called the Crippled Children and War Veterans Bill (to legalize marijuana). Instead we're getting The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act (to snoop on everybody). And the Rude Pundit notes that with the great information thief Rupert Murdoch, as with so many others, a criminal is one who arrogates to himself the privileges of the State.