I had forgotten how scary a book in which nothing very bad really happens can be. Timothy Garton Ash reviews his Stasi file. Very highly recommended.
Timothy Garton Ash (1997), The File: A Personal History (New York: Vintage: 0679777857).
"Do not forgive, for truly it is not in your power to forgive
In the name of those who were betrayed at dawn."
Just ordered it. Have you read "And They Marched into Sunlight" yet? That shows how scary and devastating a book where a lot of stuff happens can be. highly recommended
Posted by: goldberg on February 21, 2004 08:53 AMThis is oh-so-alien to our civilization!
"Congress eliminated a Pentagon office that had been developing this terrorist-tracking technology because of fears it might ensnare innocent Americans.
Still, some projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter's Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices, congressional, federal and research officials told The Associated Press.
In addition, Congress left undisturbed a separate but similar $64 million research program run by a little-known office called the Advanced Research and Development Activity, or ARDA, that has used some of the same researchers as Poindexter's program."
Associated Press - Sun Feb 22 2004
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20040222/ap_on_re_us/terror_privacy_3&printer=1
To be a human without passion is to be dead.
Posted by: Cook Sioux on May 2, 2004 03:54 PMGive what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Posted by: Fryling Milo on May 3, 2004 03:03 AMFor every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Posted by: Enriquez Brandon on June 30, 2004 07:17 AMEst autem fides credere quod nondum vides; cuius fidei merces est videre quod credis - Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. (St. Augustine)
Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur - Why do you laugh? Just change the name and the tale is told of you. (Horace)
Cura ut valeas - Take care
Credidi me felem vidisse! - I tought I taw a puddy tat!
Die dulci freure - Have a nice day
Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas - We should learn as long as we may live. (We live and learn.) (Seneca Philosophus)
Homines libenter quod volunt credunt - Men believe what they want to. (Terentius)
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part. (Pliny the Younger)
Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo - I'll have a pizza with everything on it