During a video-conferenced presentation, Wikileaks leaders Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum and Sarah Harrison were asked by an attendee, “What was the most difficult part on getting Snowden out...
That Bizarre Q&A With Julian Assange
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California Begins Legislative Fight Against NSA
TPM reports: A pair of California state senators, one Democrat and one Republican, have introduced legislation to prevent the state from helping NSA mass surveillance. “The National Security...
Cold Weather Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming. Global Warming is Why It’s So Damn Cold.
Every now and then, it’s worth reminding ourselves that much of the national political discourse operates based upon a script, and, usually, script cues are driven by the news media. For...
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The Tragically Hip – “Yer Not the Ocean” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading...
Consistency, Glenn Greenwald Style
In response to an article in The Daily Beast by Gordon Chang, Greenwald tweeted (among other things): DailyBeast: we're giving platform to a Glenn Beck regular to spew evidence-free innuendo based on...
Yes, Of Course NSA is Collecting Metadata from Members of Congress
The New Year seems to have resurrected the slow fade-to-black of the Edward Snowden saga. First, there’s a roiling case for the Justice Department to offer Snowden clemency or some kind of plea...
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The Dead Weather – “Open Up (That’s Enough)” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue...
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MST3K Saturday – “The Projected Man” Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
Disney World: The Real Surveillance State
It’s a small world after all: The MyMagic+ “vacation management system” can track guests as they move throughout Walt Disney World and analyze their buying habits. If parents allow...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag: The Rejection of the Tea Party, Clemency for Snowden and Our New Year’s Resolutions
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1) Do you think the establishment Republican plan to stop the “fools” in the Tea Party will actually work or will it only hasten a rift in the...
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Rush – “The Analog Kid” Live Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue...
Super Stupid
In his ongoing effort to waste his taxpayer-funded salary by trolling on Twitter, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) tweeted this: Smart. Try spraying salt-water into your firearm on a regular basis, then...
Six Million Newly Insured Americans. Thanks, Obama.
The latest round of good news regarding the ACA: 2.1 million people have signed up for private coverage through the exchanges. That was the biggest news out of today’s conference call, where...
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Fleetwood Mac – “Rhiannon” Live, 1976 Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
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U2 – “New Year’s Day” Live Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
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Alvarez Guitars – Alan Silvestri’s “Back to the Future” Performed Acoustically Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
The Government Is Definitely Not ‘Watching Everything We Do’
As you’ve probably heard already, Ed Snowden delivered a videotaped holiday message via Laura Poitras to Channel 4 in the U.K. If you can tolerate the cotton mouth and, of course, the pious...
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MST3K Saturday – “Santa Claus” “Santa Claus” is easily the most trippy, bizarre Christmas movie ever. By the way, Red Letter Media reviewed it in their recent holiday...
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Darlene Love – “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” Live on Letterman, 2013 Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue...
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Plácido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti – “O Holy Night” Wow. This version of “O Holy Night” gets me every time. Continue reading → Continue reading →...