*liz had her funeral today--in the woods near london, with friends and family near by. not a bad way to be buried
*an expert on islam from temple university was qouted on anderson cooper today saying that the aclu should stop whining and bitching until something real came along--the price of freedom is constant vilgence& im worried about saying this, because it always gets worse, but its bad enough that aclu should be shouting louder.
* ann coulter is accused by moby lives of plagarzing, about art--but its just a rehash of the same peices--you can describe reactionary attitudes towards transgressive art in a v. limited set of ways--i think shes more then a bit of a bitch, but i doubt shes a plagarist. (and i think shes actually a pretty good polemcist)
* the nypd is searching bags randomly in the war against terror and/or drugs--ineffective, and contiuned the dismantling of the 4th ammendment.
* 14/16 of the patroit acts section are now permanat law, with 2/16 renewed for another 10 years. god save us.
* the cia has gotten permission to intergate irish citizens on irish soil w/o irish police (did the ira teach aq counter insurgency tactics---is there an opressed people of the world vibe here?) (more imptly is there a people of the book thing)
* london police bundled a guy in the subway and shot him five times close in the head and chest, leaving him dead---muslims aouted by cnn view it as a racist and excessive move, but w/i 10 minutes of the shooting there were 5 ineffective bombs that went out on the oppoiste axis of the bombs a couple of weeks ago--rumour that it was supposed to be a faming cross what ever the fuck that means
* canadian bishops prevent the baptiszing of children of queer parents--knowing about orignal sin makes this an esp. egregious exclusion, and means that basically not only queer folx, but the family of queer folx are forbidden from being part of almost any sacraemnt (up to 2, 3 if you include arguements about forbidding communion to gay positive politicans)

i really need good news rignt now