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“Given the lack of public outcry about these shameful laws and rulings, I’m beginning to wonder if very many of you care about your rights. Do you?”

“Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England…”

“It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation’s foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process.”

In less than three weeks, we’ll start going to the theaters to watch the latest Star Wars movie. We will see bad things happen. And then we’ll go home, and let similar bad things happen in real life.

“[T]here are no honest administrations. But each presidency does bring its own unique style to the task of deceiving the citizenry.”

I wonder if the next Star Wars movie is going to be serendipitously subversive. In a Time interview George Lucas says “All democracies turn into dictatorships — but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator.”

I’ve been using Mac OS X for about six months now, and really love it. Mac OS X is built on top of Unix technology. My computer has crashed exactly once in that time. Once.

Pretty fuckin’ funny.

“Now [Bill Gates is] working every angle to evade any penalty. Microsoft will settle only for license to continue the kinds of practices that have served so well in the past. Justice, like honor, is not in this company’s vocabulary.”

A Fortune article, How Microsoft Conquered Washington, describes in detail the sophisticated — and expensive — lobbying that Microsoft does with our elected officials: