Today, somebody took a gun to school and killed 31 people.
There isn’t a single thing right with that sentence. It happened, though. Lucky for me, nobody I know was involved, but I feel deeply sorry for anybody who was hurt, their families and friends.
I wanted to write something about what might drive somebody to do [...]

Yesterday President Bush signed the military commissions act. Among other things it says that people who aren’t U.S. citizens (like me) and are accused of terrorism can be held indefinitely without trial. It’s just a small step to secret police making people disappear. We already have secret courts, secret prisons, and all kinds of scary [...]

There’s a lot of discussion about the Iraq war, and the White House has succesfully framed the debate into two camps: finish the mission (whatever that is), and immediate pull-out. I’ve hear a smattering of better thought-out plans, but I just wanted to add mine to that list.
The first step is to acknowledge that we [...]

With the yesterday’s passage of new detainee legislation yesterday, I lost my civil rights. If, in a law officer’s judgment, I provide “material support” to the enemy, I can be accused of being an enemy combatant. Once I get that status they can lock me up, and because I’m not a US citizen they don’t [...]