U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read. Privacy advocates obtain records showing that people pulled aside for extra screening during international travel may have detailed records, including reason for travel, race and reading material, stored by the government for years.

Bush's stairway to paradise. Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity "where he accelerates his errors to vindicate his folly. As the sands of time run down, he has decided that no matter what he does, history will finally judge him as heroic." [Salon]
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