Kasparov Jailed For Disagreeing with Putin

Putin is an enemy of the modern world which holds as its most important principle the free flow of ideas.

Today, he jailed chess champion Gary Kasparov for demonstrating against his regime.

Karsparov had seen ahead a few moves; he knew Putin would come after him.

Vonnegut

I will miss him.

I've stolen another link from Sullivan's website: here's an exerpt from "A Man Without a Country"

march on washington

Seriously; the errosion of habeas corpus demands a response from the US citizenry. The stance this administration has consistently taken is that they don't have to follow any of the laws/constitutions that were written before they came to power. They can imprisson whomever for whatever reason for however long and be accountable to no one.

I'm not much of an organizer, but I'll march on DC if/when a civil liberties march gets organized.

From Sullivan's website, I got this link to a Harpers story about an imprissoned Pullizer-prize winning photojournalist. He's been imprissoned for a year. No charges have been filed against him.

Redacted

Big Brother Bush tortured a confession out of a suspected terrorist, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. What did that torture buy us? What he confessed can't be trusted or believed. Bush has tainted America's good standing in the world and emboldened totalitarians like Putin and Ahmadinejad.

Nashiri described his torture. Bush redacted the transcript.

ISP

Google announced a new broadband service.

I don't think it will work for me, though.