What Do I Know?

[ Part 1 is here .] We left off in the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles.  As we moved along we came across this image of...

Scrondahl commented on the Stay off the Flume post , that I should not rule out the Flume, but check the Juneau Avalanche Forecast . Here&#...

The New York Times has this new story about a European being detained by Customs when arriving in the US. This story brings to mind the I...

Last week I posted a copy of an email about a presentation in Chiang Mai entitled "Bio Fuel By Decree." Now I'm following th...

Two stories that mark today's erosion of liberty. I'm starting to think that one of the purposes of all the different rules we have...

Anonymous commented on a previous post that raised questions about the security of Diebold voting machines. Diebold changed the name of it...

Phil mentions the Bradley effect and the Tweety effect in his comment on the earlier post on the New Hampshire primary. Bradley effec t argu...

I don't know what happened. Here's what I do know. 1. Voting machines, like those made by Diebold, have serious flaws that potent...

OK, one more, then that's it. Orange Revolution has particular relevance for paranoid leftist Americans. Are the powers that lie behind...

Sanaz has missed the last couple of the literary meetings of Azar Nafisi and seven of her best female students. They meet in her apartment ...

Here's the beginning of the story of an Icelandic visitor who was chained and handcuffed at JFK held without sleep or food and very dela...

When you buy a certain type of car, suddenly you see them everywhere. When you are pregnant, suddenly you notice all the other pregnant wom...

In this report, an ATT engineer reports that the NSA collects internet traffic with the cooperation of ATT. While they say they use compute...

In a comment on the previous post, Phil linked to this piece by Naomi Wolf on another blog. These stories sound so unreal that I'm sur...