Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

The concept of riding an elevator into space has been floating around science fiction circles for a couple of decades now - at least i’ve been reading about it since the early 80’s. The basic concept is to build a floating platform anchored near the equator and connect one end of a cable to it [...]

Nice piece of satire over at Norm’s blog.
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Here is the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler demanding the US Attorney General’s office release the names of the post 9/11 detainees. It makes for interesting reading as she skewers the non-arguments presented by the government for continued secrecy. It starts with
Secret arrests are “a concept odious to a democratic
society,” Morrow v. [...]

Here’s a link to a series of articles in The Village Voice by writers such as Net Nentoff and James Ridgeway on the rapid destruction of civil liberties in the US post 9/11.
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I see the problem now. MT is automatically putting a [br /] at the end of each row in the table after the [/tr] tag and because tables can’t be broken that way it bumps the line break up above the table. So the more rows there are in the table the more space [...]