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Keefe is right to point out that from a strategic standpoint, signals intelligence alone is insufficient, and that the U.S. needs more flesh-and-blood agents gathering and evaluating information out in the field. But what he neglects to fully address critically are the ramifications of programs like Echelon on individual privacy and civil liberties. Public oversight of intelligence organizations is poor to nonexistent; the answer to the question Quis custodiet ipsos custodies—who watches the watchers?—is, effectively...
...Road comp. The new LCD Soundsystem record is worth buying just for the bonus disc that compiles all the singles. Unbelievable stuff to dance to. My band, Blanks, just recorded a bunch of demos over break, so I’ve been playing those a lot, trying to flesh them out in my head. I just spent the last hour listening to Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” on repeat...
...Huck’s adoptive mother and owner from whom Jim has fled, shows up sporadically, but the one direct reference to the eponymous rapscallion appears only on the 132nd of 161 pages. Jim himself seems more like a ghost of inspiration, a whiff of poetic afflatus, than a flesh-and-blood character, for all his occasional poignancy...
...Eating human flesh, you feel like you’re the most miserable person on the earth. But in my mind, there was the idea that my friend was giving me a chance of survival that he didn’t have,” Canessa said...
...adherents did not belong to the human race,” claims Elkins. She compares the vilification of Jews with settlers’ characterizations of Mau Mau. These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation oath included nearly all of the things settlers alleged...