Consternation and Cultural Dust-Ups
There's consternation in the blogosophere today, with everyone wondering what those two Saudi guys were doing getting on a high school bus in Florida (the subject of today's No. 2 top blog post) and WiredNews printing documents it's not supposed to about NSA wiretaps (subject of today's most-cited link). Both items, of course, get at the question of how prepared the U.S. for what some are convinced could be the next terrorist attack...and others are conviced is another reason for government intrusion into private lives.
Privacy, indeed
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Jim Nicholson, is today's third burstiest person for the simple fact that one of his employees took home some files with personally identifiable information on millionos of U.s. military vets...and the file was stolen from his house by burglars. "Thanks for serving" in this instance just seems pretty hollow.
Read it here
Speaking of Saudi Arabia, a Washington Post piece about Saudi textbooks whose religiously intolerant tone has supposedly been softened, is the subject of today's most-shared news story. Says Restless Mania in a sort of understated way, "we need some new friends."
Posted by Sue MacDonald at May 23, 2006 10:16 AM
