Jet says, "There will never be another lead sentence so beautiful."

Jet says, "CLEVELAND (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast media from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for supporting free speech."

Pete Wisdom says "Connie, do I strike you as a threat to national security? :P"
Constantine says "...no..."
Constantine says "Why, did someone accuse you of being one?"
Pete Wisdom says "I was chosen by the computer at the airport - and not everyone was, and I asked why and they said they didn't know, the computer did it - to get patted down and magnet-searched and have my bag rifled through."
Constantine says "..."
Pete Wisdom says "http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5291334.htm gives a possible explanation."
Constantine vaguely remembers reading somewhere that people are randomly being selected for stuff like that at airports. Which strikes me as amazingly stupid, but.
Supernova says "I could make a sardonic remark about the land of the free here if it'll make anybody happy.:/"

Montclair peeps.

Is there anything going down on campus soon? Like, tonight? Musical jams, protests, vigils, ANYTHING? I want in. I really do. I want to come over there and play my guitar until my fingers bleed, again. I need to lose my head in it, with people I know and love. Can't do it at home, my da's turned into Wolverine through inaction and inability to act.

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Iraq: Desert Dispatch -- Advance Toward Border Begins - post-apocalyptic mental images. I think of Nevada. I wonder and worry about Dan. Where are you?

Also, no shit. We have a habit of losing interest. Every few years there's something new and the last one's left alone. Hey! America's a 'Toxic Boy' -- Jess, I wish I knew where you were.

Little less than two hours now.

It's easier to view in Lynx.

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23930 -- Already, tens of thousands of people have been pouring into northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region from government-controlled areas and neighboring Turkey and Jordan are bracing for waves of refugees.

“Our task now is to do everything we possibly can to avert a humanitarian disaster,” German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said at the meeting, which was boycotted by his British and US counterparts.