Better late than never ... diaries for the night shift:
- chasm's How They Plan To Watch You floats an intriguing theory that child porn prosecution through the Patriot Act is designed to erode our objections to warrantless surveillance altogether. By choosing such a loathsome initial target, the diarist argues, it will prove hard to object to the practice then and later.
- mem from somerville's Post Peak Oil: good outcomes possible? takes a positive look at what post-peak oil could look like ... a simpler life and back to READING!
- UncommonSense's Cathollic cardinal endorses condoms points us to a cardinal who finds disease prevention - not birth control - worthy of condom use despite the Church's official edict.
- melvin's Real Family Values: Esera Tuaolo's New Book is a terrific review of the former NFL's player's book, a "self-portrait of a hero," in the diarist's words.
- Eternal Hope's Libby, Montana and asbestos -- the Tao of activism is a beautiful essay on materialism and consumerism, and their effects on activism.
- mischaDC's Forgotten History: Baseball, Jackie Robinson, and the CP-USA recounts the Communist Party's role in aiding the integration of major league baseball.
- Rimjob's Future Weapons Of The United States Military details future weapons, their specs and capabilities. With cool pictures!
- chingchongchinaman's On Earth Day: Confessions of an Energy Penny Pincher gives great tips on individual energy conservation.
- johnnygunn's Good Morning from Wyoming highlights a beautiful spring walk - with pictures - in honor of Earth Day.
- KingOneEye's Moody Disorders: Fox News VP John Moody 'Fesses Up dissects - and hilariously answers - statements from Fox News' master spinner Moody.
- k9disc's Jobs are People argues that Democrats should shift the dialogue away from "saving jobs" to helping the people who do them.
- wulidancer's In Defense of Blackwater's Private Contractors offers more analysis of the suit against Blackwater by the families of contractors who were killed.
- BarbinMD's Kirkuk and a DoD Press Briefing looks at the emerging importance of the city of Kirkuk in the shifting political climate in Iraq.
- thereisnospoon's Reframing the Debate on Government Itself reflects on how to change "government" from a bad word to a good one, and what Democrats can do to embrace and evoke a change in how government is viewed.
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