"It overcrowds us. We organize it. It falls apart.
We organize it again and fall apart ourselves."

--"The Duino Elegies", Rainer Maria Rilke

Word of the Day:
anacoluthon - A grammatical interruption or lack of implied sequence within a sentence
(Thanks to James)

"Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras." -- NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999

Hiding the killing in the Gulf War

Katinka Matson

Let Freedom Reign

"He who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep
pain that cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom to us
by the awful grace of God."
Aeschylus, 525-456 BC

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thought Police

"In ancient Greece it was a custom to break a slate of burned clay into several pieces and distribute them within the group. When the group reunited the pieces were fitted together (Greek symbollein). This confirmed the members belonging to the group."

Words of the day:
autocthonous - indigenous
quiddity - essence
telos - goal
threnody - mournful poem or song

"an outrageous attempt by the US to mislead": only 3,000 of 11,000 pages of Iraq report left uncensored

"The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users."

Neural Networks in Plain English

"While it may shock some to hear it, libertarians are philosophically opposed to both liberty and equality... The LP tends to politically support liberty on some issues, but never philosophically... While libertarians champion liberty in some arenas, such as free speech, they do so not for the sake of liberty as a coherent ideal; they do so for reasons of their own convenience." --Liberty and equality: a rebuke of libertarianism

Mathematics vs. Matter: The Philosophic Roots of the Rejection of Physical Causation in 20th Century Physics
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Safeguards to be eliminated: "routine oversight; paper records of surveillance; internal reviews of investigations; and publicly available summaries of basic information, such as the number of new probes opened in a year." --NY State of Surveillance
More surveillance

GW unable to bear dissent

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