Some mornings, nearly every story I read seems like it’s worth blogging about. Other mornings, nothing seems worth the effort. Today is one of the latter. I eventually managed to find a few things, but it felt like work.
Nothing to note in the home-life lately. The heat-wave has broken (we’re up to 21 days over 90 so far this year, as compared to three last year) for now, so today I’ll be concentrating on outdoor things like mowing the lawn and weeding the garden.
- Warren’s thinking about the Implications of A Privacy Right such as the one expressed in Roe v. Wade. The good thing about it is that it stands athwart government expansion, by providing a counterbalance to
compelling public interest
. The bad part is more complicated, and you probably want to go read Warren’s thoughts. [coyote blog] - Since TIA got killed, they’ll do it in a different way: Pentagon to Increase Domestic Surveillance for Counterterrorism. [claire]
- Jim asks Can you believe this shit...? and points to an NLRB ruling that says that a company can ban its workers
from any fraternization with company clients or with co-workers while on or off duty.
Seems to me a little out of line, but not terribly surprising. [jim] - Ever wonder why we have Highways Made of Pork? Well, in the most recent transportation appropriations bill, 434 of the 435 “honorable“ members of the House of Representatives slipped pork for their district into the bill. Unless you live in Arizona’s 6th District, your rep was one of ’em. Because of all the pork, only eight representatives voted against it. [coyote blog]