roland on July 23rd, 2008

The cancer called the Department of Homeland Security is at it again, eating away at our fundamental rights. As it metastasizes through the Constitution, already bludgeoning due process in theFifth Amendment, it’s now tearing at the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizures without probable cause.
A recent federal court decision has [...]

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roland on March 28th, 2007

Gandhi once said that you can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its animals. What can you say about a company that let rat poison in their pet food?
Last month I took care of a friend’s landlord’s cats while they traveled on a cross-country road [...]

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roland on February 21st, 2007

Anyone who knows me, knows that 99% of the time I’m cool, low-tempered and about as laid back as you can be. Then there are times that I need to rant. The things that get me are usually tales of greed, especially corporate greed (Enron, Halliburton), political greed (our president and his cronies) [...]

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