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Politics
I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was.
The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize [...]
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Politics
equally divided poverty
This is old, but I never got around to publishing it: Cuban Cell Phone Ban Lifted
Cuba’s state-controlled telecommunications monopoly, a joint venture with Telecom Italia, charges US$2.70 (euro1.70) per minute to call the U.S. and US$5.85 (euro3.70) per minute to Europe and most of the rest of the world. Making or receiving local calls [...] -
Politics
FISA
Outrageous.
First, the compromise bill reasserts that FISA is the “exclusive means” for conducting electronic surveillance, which would require the president to ignore such language twice in order to launch an extralegal surveillance program, rather than only once, as under traditional FISA rules.
Second, it preserves prior judicial review of surveillance authorizations, except in “very, [...]
John Bullard
