Monthly Archives: August 2017

Political Surveillance?

The U.S. Department of Justice last month served a search warrant on DreamHost, the company that hosts a website used to coordinate inauguration-day protests, asking for the IP addresses of the 1.3 million people who visited the site.  DreamHost‘s general … Continue reading

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Watch What You Say

A Fairfax County jury has imposed an $8.4 penalty on an amateur blogger who claimed that an Army officer up for promotion to General had raped her when they were cadets at West Point about 30 years ago.   The … Continue reading

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Surging Stock Market

Our current stock market bubble is sort of scary. Articles trying to assess the impact of the six-month-long string of political crises plaguing us under President Trump have included reports of the ongoing surge in the U.S. stock market.  The … Continue reading

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The Old Standby: Peanut Butter

Prisoners in Alabama have shown, yet again, the importance of having peanut butter within reach. Inmates in Walker County Jail saved peanut butter from their sandwiches and used it like modeling clay to alter the number above a door that … Continue reading

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