Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Monday, June 3, 2013

Stop calling me a dictator on Twitter, Turkish dictator cries

The news organization founded by Mike Bloomberg, who rules like a dictator, gives Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is the dictator of Turkey, a platform to deny that he is a dictator, and that Twitter is ruining the world.

Mike Bloomberg's opinion of Twitter is unknown, but he probably isn't happy that anyone can tweet more than 16 times a day.

Supreme Court says States can take DNA samples from arrestees

The Court ruled today [Maryland vs. King] that taking a DNA swap from someone who has been arrested is not an unreasonable search, even though it basically allows the government to go fishing for unrelated offenses. When the Court splits 5-4, and Scalia writes a disent joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan, you can be assured that the ruling is bad for civil liberties, and that the disent will be scathing (and quite humorous at times.):

Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason.

Volokh has some discussion here.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

The Last Ice Merchant

Baltazar Ushca climbs Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo with a pack of donkeys laden with straw to cut glacial ice, which he sells at the market. He's the last one. This is his story. Give him 15 miuntes of your time.


http://vimeo.com/66507747