Boundless Intrusion – it’s much bigger than Prism
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I’m not sleepy (and there ain’t no place I’m going to)
In the dead reaches there is plenty of time to think. And there have been plenty of dead reaches. This is what I have gleaned. Causes: There are many possible reasons why I have not been able to sleep over the years, but none of them are particularly predictable except in retrospect. Too much stuff…
Plus ça change, plus c’est vraiment différent
On the way to our place in France, I was able to reflect on the wholesale changes this country has undergone, seemingly collectively, in the areas of road safely and health. There are few other nations that seem to be able to do this. It’s almost exactly a 500 mile journey to our French…
Possibly the most irritating thing about British Airways.
In which listening to some opera brings back a wave of forgotten memories about the world’s most irksome airline In my business life I flew more or less exclusively on American Airways when commuting to the US. I racked up over 7 million AAdvantage miles with them, and I like to say they…
Well hello again – I should stay away more often
As I will detail in subsequent posts, this has been an exceptionally busy time, and I have not been able to make the space to create decent quality posts (not that this is necessarily one either). Once I decided to get back into the site, I approached the dreaded WordPress stats page with great trepidation. Would…
Goebbels’ heirs
Musings on the occasional use of truth in politics. Nearly ten years ago, in the autumn of 2002, while I was flying from (I think) Chicago back to NYC, I had one of the most dramatic and disturbing conversations I ever experienced in the US. My practice over many years had been never to talk…