One of the most outside-the-box privacy activist plans to disrupt NSA surveillance: shut off their water supply so they can’t cool their computers. Or presumably, drink or hydrate themselves.
When someone of Nelson Mandela’s stature, historic significance and personal greatness dies, there’s really nothing to say for most of us that isn’t trite or unneeded. That seems especially so in this case in which Mandela’s passing has elements of a blessing in human terms, given his great age and deep enfeeblement and apparent suffering. But after a day of absorbing this expected news, there is one thing I would like to add: violence. And I mean that in a good way.
Did your favorite Republican lose his R-card this morning for praising Mandela on Facebook? Must read about where some of America still lives.
