Sentient being (usually), raised in the midwest, living in the southwest. Information geek analyst/architect and musician/artist. Evolve the Constitution, it's not what most people seem to think it is...
Sunday afternoon, we're driving home through the desert, heading back to the middle of Arizona where I live at a point along the base of a geological freak of nature: the southwestern end of the Colorado Plateau lift known as the Mogollon Rim.
Driving back home on Interstate 8. The cool breezes of San Diego shorelines replaced by humid monsoon season heat-waves. A few clusters of dark clouds dump dense sheets of rain on Mexico and the rest of the sky fills with clouds, high, non-threatening...
Recently I struck up a conversation with a person who insisted that Ralph Nader is a saint. No, not of the religious persuasion, but a man with holy ideals, a man worth voting for no-matter-what !
For months now I've been scanning endless threads and commentaries on dKos and elsewhere attempting to figure out why Hillary is still running for the presidential nomination.
No, this was not illuminating, surely she must know that her garnering the working, non-college white democrat voters does not hold water across the entire country. So I've puzzed and puzzled 'till my puzzler is sore....
While I have much empathy for the many dKos editorials and diaries decrying the Executive branch's blatant disregard for the rule of law in its use of warrant-less wiretaps, I can't help but wonder: What is it that we are so afraid of in the government's interception or capture of electronic information?
I mean, the 4th Amendment didn't exactly anticipate the electronic age, did it? Having someone stop you in the streets or physically invade your home isn't quite the same as trying to suss information from the incredibly fast moving ocean of information in the cyberworld...
