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About not another Rob?
Syndicated content from the Tumblr where Rob Friesel collects miscellaneous flotsam and jetsam from around the web and elsewhere.TSA T&A
¶ by not another Rob?Quipsologies: Vol. 47 | No. 98
a letter to our Senators about these TSA “enhanced patdowns”
¶ by not another Rob?The letter I wrote:
I am writing to urge you to please put an immediate stop to the horrific policies of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Â The recently instituted policies of the TSA have gone beyond reasonable and I feel are a viola…
EPIC v. DHS (or, on reasonable searches)
¶ by not another Rob?“Searches are reasonable if they escalate in invasiveness only after a lower level of screening discloses a reason to conduct a more probing search. EPIC argued that the TSA’s body scanner program fails to meet these standards because the TSA subje…
“…we’ve forgotten what winning and losing are about.”
¶ by not another Rob?“We’ve become so obsessed with who wins or loses in politics that we’ve forgotten what the winning and losing are about.†– William Saletan “Democrats didn’t lose the battle of 2010. They won it.â€Â (Slate Magazine)
NaNoWriMo 2010
¶ by not another Rob?I’m doing it.  I might regret it.  But I’m going for it.
Progress to be tracked daily… here.
not a showdown
¶ by not another Rob?“Very roughly, churchgoing non-coastal rich people are Republicans, while the more secular coastal rich are Democrats. What we are now seeing is not a showdown between the vast non-ideological middle-class and some rising Acai-swilling, assortatively…
Pac-Mac
¶ by not another Rob?the iTunes of Sauron
¶ by not another Rob?Original at Flickr.
“the paradox of choice”
¶ by not another Rob?Barry Schwartz on “the paradox of choiceâ€.  A little provocative, and/but some important questions to be asking.