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Paul Hodes in Nashua

I attended my first town hall today in Nashua, Paul Hodes is running to be one of New Hampshire’s senators.  I don’t know how they got my name, I’m a registered Democrat and I contributed a small amount to the Obama campaign so it could have been from either of those sources.

It was a nice event, about fifty people turned up, the crowd skewed to the older side.  I decided to wear a shirt and tie and was pretty overdressed.  A couple of people asked if I worked for the campaign.  I sat in the back, which is … Continue Reading

William Saletan doesn’t think you’ve got a pair

William Saletan of Slate Magazine has come to the conclusion that routine body scanning at airports is a lost fight, he may be right.  However this coward seems to go above and beyond in his love for invasion of privacy.
It’s time to give up this squeamishness. Forget the etchings and fuzzy negatives. Take the whole picture, TSA: breasts, scrotum, penis, labia, gluteal cleft, whatever. Look at mine so you can look at the next guy’s. Because if he’s a bomber, that’s where you’ll find the bomb.

Privacy advocates are fighting to keep the scanners from becoming standard procedure. In … Continue Reading

Good for you Mary-Kate

Don’t Ever speak to the police without immunity.  You have nothing to gain and everything to lose.