Monthly Archives: June 2003

From Total to Terrorism

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In typical government form the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants us to think that because they changed the name of this program they have changed its purpose:

Formerly known as Total Information Awareness, the newly renamed Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) program is the brainchild of Adm. John Poindexter, known for his 1991 conviction (later overturned) for lying to Congress about his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair.
The old name, DARPA notes on its Web site, “created in some minds the impression that TIA was a system to be used for developing dossiers on U.S. citizens.” Luckily for DARPA, with the new name, they get to keep their acronym. Unluckily for privacy advocates, they kept much more than the acronym.

You can read about the rest and maybe you should consider whether to use cash or credit on your next purchase.

O’reilly v Franken

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Seeing Molly Ivins and Bill O’reilly sitting next to each other at the same table is worth looking at all by itself. But the real fun comes with the O’reilly/Franken interplay. If you have watched O’reilly at all you know he is just busting a gut wanting to interrupt while Franken is talking…just hilarious. Take a look and listen to this from BookExpo America a week or so ago. Via Hammerdown.

Resuming

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Blogging will resume here albeit slowly. My return home last night (this morning 🙂 was long and exhausting. Weather related problems begain the delays and then plain incompetence on the part of Delta Airlines led to additonal inconvenience for a few hundred people.