@NorwoodIsMyHero: Requiring any backdoors in encryption protocols (besides opening up security holes for the more nefarious minded) are akin to demanding a key in exchange for allowing delivery of a locked package. Read up on key escrow and the Clipper Chip.

Alt text: "It's totally a reasonable modern analogue. Jefferson would have been all about crypto."

@NorwoodIsMyHero: From TFA: "The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages."

@gtig: I'm sure that the bartender Ms. Karolina Obrycka must totally agree with you on how the police are only to be feared when you are breaking the law. Obviously, she must have been breaking the law to incite drunker officer Anthony Abbate to beat her behind the bar when she cut off his alcohol. Even though Officer…

@blash: Most well thought out and precise post on the topic I have seen. +heart!

@simondelmonte: Hear, hear!

@Cheney Guevara: I pity the Facebook.

@Cheney Guevara: Mr. Zuckerberg — Lieutenant Peck would like a word with you.

Hey, Zuck — Kim's coming for you next.

"To quickly summarize, the supreme court says..."

Someone needs to tell the ADA that the 4th Amendment to the Constitution says nothing about "making assumptions... based on... appearance". It forbids unreasonable searches and seizures and requires warrants based on reasonable suspicion (although searches of motor vehicles are exempt from the warrant requirement —…

@Grindhouse Murders: It's because Paul Shin Devine is a... bad apple.

This is awesome, Lauren! More of these articles, please!

@OCEntertainment: Well done, good sir. Well done.

@jayrock423: These are stats about the users of said dating site, not a national or international sample presented as representative of all 30 year olds. Reading comprehension fail.

@Serolf Divad: The innocent dead do not lose their innocence because of atrocities committed by their countrymen.

@The Lab: Exactly. That is what should be taken away from the article.

@nailalsarraj: Americans have a patriotic knee-jerk reaction to the very idea that it might be possible to feel even a tinge of national guilt about anything whatsoever. I apologize on their behalf.

No matter your opinion on the decision to drop the bombs, you should at least have the common fucking decency to look that destruction square in the eye and acknowledge the suffering that ensued. The dead and the survivors are owed that much, at least.

@1Grand_Marquis: You read Dead End Kids (Whedon), or Pride and Joy (Vaughan)?