FISA

That’s Sen. Russ Feingold (D-MI) talking about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is being debated in congress currently.  The contentious bit he’s talking about is telecom immunity, which pretty much (like he says) means that the government has access to the records held by the telecommunications industry, and the telecom [...]

just like the russians storing deadly biological agents in ruined complexes

the thought of nuclear regulations in eastern europe is kind of worrysome already. but this certainly doesn’t help:
Radioactive material seized en route from Kyrgyzstan to Iran
if it took 4 separate checkpoints to finally detect the hazardous levels of radiation that were present, how many other shipments have passed through unnoticed?

For every one atheist you create, we’re going to breed 1.78 believers

seen on the back of a late-90s minivan while driving to LAX last night:

the driver was a middle-aged, severe looking woman dressed in a 7th-Heaven, painfully proper style. Sounds like she could conceivably fit into the former group discussed below:
“Religious people who call themselves politically “conservative” or “very conservative” are having, on average, an astounding [...]