What the future needs!

Via The Scientist: But what do the data say? Over the years, many scientists have investigated the link between pornography (considered legal under the First Amendment in the United States unless judged “obscene”) and sex crimes and attitudes towards women. And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased. Read more: Porn: Good for us? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/templates/trackable/display/article1.jsp?type=article&o_url=article/display/57169&id=57169#ixzz0hnnpKhIW

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The Department of Defense has released more than 800 heavily-redacted pages of intelligence oversight reports, detailing activities that its Inspector General has “reason to believe are unlawful.”

It bodes well for legalization efforts.

Remind me, who was it who was supposed to hate us for our freedom? We've been told that it was the terrorists, but perhaps it's really the FBI . . . Your cell phone can be used to discern where you've been, either through gps, or triangulation using cell phone towers. Increasingly, the FBI is gaining access to the phone company logs that can be used to track your movements using these methods. They are doing this without warrants based on probable cause.