- Privacy
- Agents at the U.S. border can search your laptop without cause, on the legal grounds that they already have an exception to the Fourth Amendment that allows them to search any paper documents you have with you. Privacy advocates are concerned.
- Los Angeles International Airport and New York’s JFK Airport will start using a new technology to electronically strip-search passengers. Privacy advocates are concerned.
- An atheist soldier sues the U.S. Army over personal threats because of his choice of religion. Privacy—and freedom of religion—advocates are concerned.
- Politics
- A college student utterly pwns John Ashcroft during a campus appearance. If you haven’t seen this one yet, go read it; it’s amazing.
- How does the Democratic primary end? There are three possibilities, and none of them are good for the future of the party.
- On the other hand, if Clinton somehow manages to win, it’s payback time in Clintonland.
- Culture
- Sun Myung Moon, worldwide cult leader and lesser-known owner of the right-wing Washington Times, was crowned as the Second Coming—in a U.S. Senate office building.
- Richard Dawkins’s open letter to an unsuspecting victim of Ben Stein’s awful
creationist propaganda filmIntelligent Design-informed exposé of Charles Darwin, Expelled. - In Alabama, an experiment in gay hand-holding in public by the newsmagazine 20/20 generates an emergency call to 911 by a concerned citizen under the impression that laws were being broken.
- Textbooks cost too much. What can be done about it, realistically?
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