Links. . .

http://www.alternet.org/rights/36953/

Disturbing. If you were sure there was more to the Patriot Act that you weren't hearing, it turns out you were absolutely right.

And an opinion piece that hits the nail on the head (though the author didn't do enough research on the phrase in Leviticus: it's been mistranslated for centuries, and is also about the main theme of that chapter, the uncleanliness of a mentruating woman.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-slater/the-great-fundamentalist-_b_21944.html

Another American politics link

from purplkat.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen/1

On one-handed typing:

My tendency towards verbosity has been severely curtailed by my recent enforced reduction in typographical velocity.

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