Simplification is not just a new web form or some new user options to twiddle. Identity and privacy are complicated because human beings are fucking complicated. I dropped my facebook page because I spent more time futzing with privacy settings that using the site. And Facebook is struggling because this is new territory for a [...]
I have been working my way through SB 1070 slowly. The copy I have been reading is only fifteen or sixteen pages long. But this influenced my morning of listening to music and link surfing: I was looking at one of Lincoln’s speeches: Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has, not only not [...]
Although I didn’t go to law school or anything, these are countries or geographies I think of when I think of contemporary geo-political-commercial conflict zones. Iraq Iran Afghanistan Russia Georgia Thailand Mexico Texas Arizona India Pakistan Sudan Israel/Palestine Democratic Republic of the Congo Somalia Greece North Korea/South Korea Iran So how much more would have [...]
The interesting bit is at the end of the story ABC is reporting: It took Chagoury, a well-known philanthropist and an ambassador to the United Nations educational office, more than four months and thousands of dollars in legal fees to get the U.S. government to offer an apology and to give him a waiver to [...]