Notes About Networks

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...

Posted by mistersquid on September 29, 2010 9:09 AM

Obama Administration Considers Depriving American Citizens of Their Constitutional Rights

It is time to start shouting. Representatives and appointees of the Obama administration—particularly David Axelrod and Attorney General Erich H. Holder—are considering abridging one of the most important Supreme Court interpretations of the Fifth Amendment, the right against self-incrimination,...

Posted by mistersquid on May 12, 2010 11:30 AM

Cuss in Public

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is no friend of the people, what with his pathological case of the smirks during questioning about Federal eavesdropping on phone lines and electronic data streams. But we knew that his GOP-backed agenda against civil...

Posted by mistersquid on March 14, 2007 10:17 AM

Double Stitch

For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to follow up on my post regarding the ending of Spamland #1 (the only one I’ve as yet seen.) My argument was to have identified the retroactive constitution of subjectivity through the chain...

Posted by mistersquid on November 13, 2006 12:05 AM

Ohio's Senator Mumper Impedes Ohio Commerce, Flouts U. S. Constitution

Cruising  Slashdot  this morning, I find that my very own  Senator Larry A. Mumper  is the author of  Ohio Senate Bill 209 , whose aim (according to  an article on CNN ) is to require Ohio eBay sellers to license themselves...

Posted by mistersquid on March 8, 2005 12:00 AM