Monday

Tech Stuff

Tetris on a business card

Security

News crew discovers 40 cellphone-tracking devices operating around DC.  I'm sure local cops are using these too. It might be better to just turn your phone off.


Education

Gin and Tacos - SHELL GAMING, PART III


Living is Hard

The argument is valid but wouldn't it be easier to just make it easy for the workers to unionize? Who is the freeloader: the working poor on food stamps — or corporations that don’t pay them enough? Sen. Sherrod Brown has a plan to tax corporations that don’t pay their workers enough.



Middle East

Our support of Israel is reaching crazy levels. We are the big bully friend of the spoiled brat Israel. It will both hurt the US and Israel in the long run.  Congress to Consider Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights New measure recognizes Israel's control of Syrian territory 

and... we support this, well our politicians support it, I don't think the American people do.

Never in modern history has there been such a merciless, sustained campaign of collective punishment like the one that Israel has meted out against the people of Gaza. And that punishment is horrifying enough, just when you consider the humanitarian consequences of the blockade and the poisoning of the environment and the water supply. But then add to that the regular massacres of people literally trapped between the sea and a nuclear-armed nation-state, with the most advanced mass-killing machinery on the planet and you have to ask: What does Israel really want? And the answer, it seems, is submission and acceptance of dehumanization by the Palestinians or they die. 

from....  BLACKLISTED ACADEMIC NORMAN FINKELSTEIN ON GAZA, “THE WORLD’S LARGEST CONCENTRATION CAMP”

This might be the craziest biased-news claim I've ever heard.  Liberman suggests Muslim ad money causes CNN, BBC, France 24 bias against Israel


Politics

Democracy on the Run