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10 Nov 09

The Internet Doesn't Make You Lonely - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

  • According to a Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey,
    which polled 2,512 adults, the dawn of new technology and the Internet
    has not caused people to withdraw from society. In fact, the study
    found that "the extent of social isolation has hardly changed since
    1985, contrary to concerns that the prevalence of severe isolation has
    tripled since then." Pew said that 6 percent of the entire U.S. adult
    population currently has "no one with whom they can discuss important
    matters or who they consider to be 'especially significant' in their
    life."
03 Oct 09

Schneier on Security: The Problem of Vague Laws

  • "Three Felonies a Day," referring to the number of crimes he estimates the average American now unwittingly commits because of vague laws.
  • The federal wiretap laws, Mr. Silverglate writes, were "written before the dawn of the Internet, often amended, not always clear, and frequently lagging behind the whipcrack speed of technological change."
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17 Aug 09

Rick Perlstein -- Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage

  • "Tom Anderson here has turned moderate! All he wants to do is impeach [Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl] Warren. I'm for hanging him!"
  • there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a "civil rights movement" had been hatched in the Soviet Union; when the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was introduced, one frequently read in the South that it would "enslave" whites. And back before there were Bolsheviks to blame, paranoids didn't lack for subversives -- anti-Catholic conspiracy theorists even had their own powerful political party in the 1840s and '50s.
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