Outsourcing

Off to D.C.; posting will depend on the fabled Acela wireless service and other connectivity issues. In the meantime, please enjoy the following links:

• An excellent post by Jill about the useless “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” states fund instead of, say, health care for women.

• A crucial point about why the illegal wiretapping matters (and why the Alito nomination is so disastrous): So much of our privacy has, throughout history, been protected merely by virtue of the fact that there was no easy way to access information. One very practical limiting principle for law enforcement wiretaps has simply been the impossibility of actually listening to masses of taped conversations. That is rapidly ceasing to become a barrier.” Exactly right.

• Julia awards Hitch the Claude Rains Memorial Gambling Awareness Award. The Editors note that Hitch is claiming to be “enlisted” in the war on terra. Hey, putting your boots in the ground, typing up incoherent ramblings while quaffing scotch–it all counts!