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So Hachette was having a cocktail reception this afternoon for literary agents to show off their beautiful new open plan offices. To which...

So the US Open has announced that the gates are going to open a half hour earlier. Why? Because, per my last post, their useless extra s...

So New For 2013, as the main draw of the US Open tennis begins Monday, they have announced that this year everyone will get to be wanded and...

Just to get on my high horse again about the ludicrousness of our allowing our government to waste so much money spying on us, bringing it b...

A week back, Thomas Friedman, the distinguished author and columnist for the New York Times, wrote a column approving of the NSA's surv...

The British newspaper The Guardian found out that the US has very likely been receiving details  of every phone call most of us make -- who...

I don't agree with Rand Paul on much, but I'd be remiss not to thank him for doing a little battle against the never-ending war agai...

So it's been an interesting last ten days or so! For the first ten years of JABberwocky, I worked alone in my apartment, it's neve...

There is an adage that says "just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.". For most of the past ten years ...

Oh, the nuclear power industry. We tried scrubbing, we tried soaking, and still we have ring around the collar. The interesting thing from...

Here's a Washington Post article from this Saturday where Attorney General Eric Holder is defending the legality of sting operations th...

Updated twice, final 4:07 EST. The New York Times Week in Review section reprinted this Pat Bagley cartoon from the Salt Lake Tribune, wh...

My client Jim C. Hines has a new post on TSA policies and procedures here http://www.jimchines.com/2010/11/responding-to-the-tsa/ which ...

OK, so to set the record on this straight, the TSA Director said at a senate hearing on Wednesday 17 November that they haven't done a g...

So there's this ad by Lindor, the people that make those wonderful little truffle balls that you can buy at the Borders checkouts, or wi...

one man's adventures with TSA... http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html here the NY Tim...

You know from some of my other posts on these subjects that I have very passionate feelings about the direction our country is taking on mat...

The NY Times reports in an article by Nina Bernstein that the federal government is now asking people for their papers on the Lake Shore Li...

You know how much I love our airport security regime, so here's a nice article sent my way courtesy of a tweet from Elizabeth Moon htt...

Restrepo is a documentary about a US Army base in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. It is the effort of noted writer Sebastian Junger, whos...