Over the past 10 years, we’ve developed an obscene obsession with “identity,” and for all the wrong reasons.
Category: politics
Bin Laden’s Dead – Now What?
Now that Osama Bin Laden is dead, what do we do next?
Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security
We’ve spent over one TRILLION dollars on “homeland security,” but what have we really gotten out of it?
We Don’t Know How to Handle Terrorism
Found this very insightful quote over on Slashdot, and I couldn’t agree more: “Countries like the UK and Israel have experience with terrorism, and they’ve developed reasonably sane ways of handling it. Just to be clear, I’m not praising the fact that they stole land from the Irish and the Palestinians — but at least… Continue reading We Don’t Know How to Handle Terrorism
Citizen Surveillance
Thoughtful comments on the idea of citizens keeping tabs on their police & government, instead of only the other way around.