Everyone: rebuke US Airways for kicking a blind man and service dog off a flight.

If you've flown a while, you know that flight crew can act like little tyrants when they take it into their heads to push passengers around, and that when they say he was "disruptive", that is an exaggerated way to say "He talked back to us."

Everyone: tell Google to stop supporting ALEC.

ALEC is a right-wing scheme by which businesses twist state legislators to pass the bills those businesses want.

Poverty in the US is not only painful, it is deadly.

The NSA employs over 1000 crackers and has infected over 50,000 computer networks with malware to be activated later.

(Please don't use "hackers" to mean "people who break security".)

On Hacking

Prisoners in Guantanamo can get out, if they have strong enough al Qa'ida ties, by turning informer. On the other hand, if you were captured for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, you may never get out.

I have no objection to infiltrating al Qa'ida. Unlike the dissident movements that the thugs usually infiltrate, al Qa'ida supports neither human rights nor democracy. What does bother me is that this might be part of the motive for the oppressive practice of imprisoning people indefinitely without a trial.