Jonathan Turley provides an update on the suppression of sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in New York City that I wrote about earlier. [Read more…]
Mano Singham
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Those of us who have argued that the measures taken by the US in the fight in the bogus ‘war on terror’ are harmful to fundamental rights are sometimes accused of being too complacent. We are charged with erroneously thinking that the chances of the US being subjected to a terrorist attack is small and not realizing that it is only these draconian measures that have kept us safe so far. Take away the drones, the torture, the indefinite detentions without trial, the secret surveillance of all our communications, the excessive airport security, and the US would be subject to another attack. Or so we are told. [Read more…]
… it is revealed that the US and Israel were behind the latest Flame computer malware (along with the earlier Stuxnet malware) that was used to wage cyber warfare against Iran. [Read more…]
Recently Mitt Romney said: “I need to get 50.1 percent or more” to win.
No, he doesn’t. What he means of course is that he needs just one vote more than 50%, which is not at all the same thing since 50.1% can translate to a winning margin of 200,000 votes in a presidential election. [Read more…]
I recently had a seven-part series titled ‘On Insults’ and the first one dealt with the question of what constitutes an insult and who gets to decide whether something is a slur or not. It is not an easy question to answer. Are insults and slurs inherent in the words themselves? Does it depend on the intent of the person using those words? Or does it depend on the perception of the person at the receiving end? [Read more…]
Apparently it is not uncommon for Russian car owners to mount cameras on their dashboards to record everything as they drive along. This makes for some remarkable videos and someone has made an interesting compilation.
It struck me that such videos of what an accident actually looks like might make good viewing at driver training schools, and be quite persuasive about the importance of defensive driving.
Via Jerry Coyne, I learned of this website that has created a list of words commonly used by Chopra in his tweets and connects them randomly to get sentences that sound like they are saying something deep when it is pure nonsense. In other words, they are Chopraesque. [Read more…]
Just two days after my post on the variations on the Nigerian 419 scam, I got the following comment that gave me the good news that the criminal syndicates behind this fraud have been captured and that I am now eligible to get $50,000.00 to compensate me for my trouble..
Here’s the comment that I dispatched to the spam folder: [Read more…]