The "whole" truth

[Readers arriving from the Alternet article from April 28th, 2011 linking to this post may also be interested in reading my response .] Tod...

On hiatus

It would appear that my " 15 minutes " has just about come to an end, and I couldn't be happier about it. When I stood up to t...

Nothing to fear (but fear and maybe the TSA)

TSA administrator John Pistole appeared in a senate oversight hearing this past week. It had already been planned, but he was questioned abo...

Flying is a "privilege"

I've gotten a lot of feedback from people about my interaction with the TSA last week stating that flying is a privilege, not a right. I...

What will I say?

[In various places, I've heard responses like this to what I did, but very few people have taken the time to ask their questions respect...

Motivation of my filming of my TSA encounter

A lot of commenters are saying that they agree with my position on the whole issue of TSA overreach, but many of them (and also those who di...

More about my TSA encounter at SAN

I've been keeping up with all of the comments, but today has been kind of hectic as you can imagine, and I don't have time to reply ...

TSA encounter at SAN

[These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writi...

It's legal because we say so

Former President Bush is making the rounds on television promoting his new book . In an interview, he defended his view that waterboarding i...

"Saving" capitalism

[I wrote the following in response to a friend who posted this article on his Facebook page. I apologize for the lack of annotated links in...

News roundup

I haven't posted much this week, but I've been saving a number of news stories throughout the week that I found interesting. Without...

What's wrong with this picture

Yesterday, I received my Social Security statement in the mail. It looks something like this . I just assume that the country will be bankru...

Just... hold on a second

I came across a number of weird/wacky news stories this morning, and since I didn't really feel like writing very much, I was going to j...

Free speech, alive and well

I noticed the 'crawl' along the bottom of the TV screen this morning mention that NPR had fired Juan Williams over some comments tha...

The first amendment says what?

I usually try to stay away from the low hanging fruit of the day in and day out political machinations and mud slinging that make up the U.S...

Government bailout turns a profit

According to Bloomberg news : The U.S. government’s bailout of financial firms through the Troubled Asset Relief Program provided taxpayers ...