He said Americans have found themselves in danger from their own police officers because they did not object to previous abuses – and he said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombing proves the situation can only get worse.
(Emphasis mine.)
Police expert: War on terror has turned our cops into occupying armies — and we’re the enemy
Appropriate impropriety.
Students Embarrass Rick Perry With Explicit Questions About Gay Sex During College Visit / Queerty
Anthropologists have long struggled to decode the curious markings that appear under Tumblr posts, cryptic combinations of vertical lines and horizontal text all arranged in strange triangular tableaux. But Dr. Waldrop’s team made a crucial breakthrough this month when they realized that maybe you can tell who wrote a comment by following the line that goes from the comment to the username above.
… office-speak is not language. It’s not even jargon, but more a verbal argon—inert strings of sounds or symbols used to confuse underlings, to deliberately bore them and keep them servile.
Where Did Soul-Sucking Office-Speak Come From? | VICE | United States
There’s a debate taking place on the national level over whether the federal government should step in to overturn laws like Colorado’s, which prohibit municipal broadband. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler recently signaled that he might be willing to do so.
7 Colorado communities just secured the right to build their own broadband – The Washington Post
United States of Surveillance from MarkFiore on Vimeo.
United States of Surveillance. After the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden, we know more about the full extent of NSA domestic spying. A Mark Fiore political animation.