] Gee, here's a report that really caught me by surprise.
] According to the fifth annual "Nerves of Steel" driving
] survey conducted for the Steel Alliance, Metro Detroit
] area is full of aggressive drivers.
]
] Us, aggressive? Get out of here!

I like how there's a distinction made between NYC and Miami.

Detroit drivers rank 9th rudest - 05/29/03

Read how those defending your rights weren't allowed to speak in opposition to this bill.

How Sausage Is Made - House Judiciary Committee OK's HB0457!

] CCS International, a surveillance products company in New
] Rochelle, NY, estimates that ordinary Americans are
] buying surveillance devices, many of dubious legality, at
] a clip of $6 million a day. We have met the enemy of our
] privacy, and it is us.

a great article that talks about how loss of privacy is not inevitable.

Surveillance Nation Part Two

This is a complete Super-DMCA page with the text of the laws in various states and detailed information. Who can fight this in Tennessee??

Freedom to Tinker: Status of State Super-DMCA Bills

] However rhetorical it's become, the following is no less
] true: The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks forced the
] United States to change the way it responds to external
] threats. For a very long time, Americans were content to
] believe that this nation's sheer size and distance from
] global hot spots sheltered us from terrorism. In the face
] of a billion tons of ash and human carnage, it became
] clear that we're as vulnerable as anyone else.

this piece has definitely got me thinking in a slightly different direction.

War. Still a Good Idea.

] The recording industry is suing students at Michigan
] Technological and two other universities, saying they ran
] Napster-like file sharing systems on the schools'
] high-speed Internet networks.
]
] The lawsuit says Michigan Tech student Joseph Nievelt and
] three others ran systems offering more than 1 million
] copies of songs for illegal downloading.

Michigan Tech student sued by music industry over file sharing

] Like many people who value freedom, I once found the idea
] of Libertarianism to be appealing. Libertarians claim
] that "everyone should be free to do as they choose, so
] long as they don't infringe upon the equal freedom of
] others" and they believe that their ideology achieves
] this goal.

Why I am not a Libertarian

Some interesting statistics on wars from the Revolutionary War to the (first) Gulf War, on things such as:
- Percentage of population enrolled in the military
- Number of casualties (both absolute and percentage)
- Cost of the war (converted to 1990 dollars)
- Duration of war, average casualties/month, and so forth

Statistical Summary: America's Major Wars

] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say
] on Tuesday: "The Constitution just sets minimums ... Most
] of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the
] Constitution requires." According to Scalia, during
] wartime, "the protections will be ratcheted right down to
] the constitutional minimum."

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

ha.

oh.

Scalia says rights excessive, can be scaled down in wartime

] ACCORDING to many otherwise rational people, the moon
] landings were faked. They point to signs of a flag
] fluttering in the wind in one of the photographs. It has
] even been suggested that the space shuttle Columbia was
] deliberately destroyed to prevent the launch of a probe
] that would prove that people never landed there.

A possible explanation for conspiracy theories