RTMark reports false arrest of artist by FBI who mistakes art for bioterrorism. RTMark FBI ABDUCTS ARTIST, SEIZES ART Feds Unable to Distinguish Art from Bioterrorism Grieving Artist Denied Access to Deceased Wife's Body ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ DEFENSEÊ FUND ESTABLISHED – HELP URGENTLY NEEDED Steve Kurtz was already suffering from one tragedy when he called 911 early […]

Going to an intervention? Be Prepared.. No one likes to go to interventions. Tensions are high and there is always a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt. You can't eliminate the unpleasantness of an intervention, but you can ease some of the tension by simply being… [Ernie The Attorney] —- funny…..

Eric Idle Says “Fuck You Very Much” To The Shrub, The FCC, Cheney, Condi, Arnie, and the Lot of Them. This just in from Eric Idle: The FCC Song. Here's My mirror of the song, in case you have trouble with the first link. Lyrics: Here's a little number I wrote the other day while […]

My Work Is Done Here. Blogging is hard to quit for many reasons. Not least because once you've made the decision to quit, you need to blog about it. It's like a glue, or something. I've been thinking about whether I should stop, and if I stop whether I should say I'm stopping or just, […]

Exercising the Right of Dissent. by TChris Cynthia Tucker reminds us that it isn't unpatriotic to criticize President Bush, his administration, or his decisions. Exercising the right of dissent is so vital to the democratic process that the Bill of Rights enshrines it in the… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —— dissent, for those interested […]

Guess I'm square. Isn't “personal democracy” an oxymoron? Unless you don't mind nothing but unanimous votes, I guess. In any case, I wish I was here. [The Doc Searls Weblog] —– looks like an interesting conference, but yes, there is no such thing as personal democracy. demos sort of rules that out.

How to Build Open Information Societies. Amy Mahan and Yuri Misnikov at UNDP's regional center in Bratislava, Slovakia, have edited a book on How to Build Open Information Societies: A Collection of Best Practices and Know-How. “Case studies and examples from 19 countries illustrate different e-governance… [InternetPolicy.net] ——- interesting free book

Sweating the small stuff. Last year, I fell off my bike, and had to have my arm in a sling for a couple of days. I don’t care, even a little bit, that Bush had a spill. It happens. But if the White House is going to come out and blame the fall on “what […]

Something like Fire, or the Wheel. I spent a lot of a flight from London to Singapore reading Tragically I was an Only Twin, a well-edited collection of the comedy sketches, monologues and occasional journalism of Peter Cook. It turns out that Cook addressed many of the issues that preoccupy us at CT. Like intelligent […]

UN official: terrorism justifies info control. “The threat of terrorism has made it more important for nations to control the flow of information through the Internet, United Nations ICT Task Force Deputy Executive Coordinator Sergei Kambalov told Interfax during an interview at the 4th Annual Forum… [InternetPolicy.net] —- information control is a certain kind of […]