It's The Stupid Questions That

The United States Of America Was A Pirate Nation For The First One Hundred Years Of Its Existence, Ripping Off The Patents And Trademarks Of The Imperial European Powers It Had Liberated Itself From By Blood. By Keeping Their Gdp At Home, The U.s. Revolutionaries Were Able To Bootstrap Their Nation Into An Industrial Powerhouse. Now, It Seems, Their Descendants Are Bent On Ensuring That No Other Country Can Pull The Same Trick Off.

The Right To Freedom Of Association Is Fine, But Why Shouldn't The Cops Be Allowed To Mine Your Social Network To Figure Out If You're Hanging Out With Gangbangers And Terrorists?

The Good News (for Writers) Is That This Means That Ebooks On Computers Are More Likely To Be An Enticement To Buy The Printed Book (which Is, After All, Cheap, Easily Had, And Easy To Use) Than A Substitute For It. You Can Probably Read Just Enough Of The Book Off The Screen To Realize You Want To Be Reading It On Paper.

Terrorism Is About Magnifying One Mediagenic Act Of Violence Into One Hundred Billion Acts Of Terrorized Authoritarian Idiocy.

The Future's A Weirder Place Than We Thought It Would Be When We Were Little Kids.