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‘Why I Love the New York Times,’ by Josh Clark
by Josh Clark | November 30, 2010
I kind of like how the New York Times has recently more frequently adopted a first-person viewpoint lately. When it began publishing articles based on thousands of State Department cables released by Wikileaks this week, it also published editorials on its decision to accept and publish the sensitive information in the classified cables. Putting an even more human face on the paper, the Times’ executive editor went on All Things Considered yesterday.
Over the last week or so, there seems to be something that has changed. It seems like the general public is broadly becoming more activistic. The most obvious sign of it is the reaction to the new, more aggressive stance of the TSA. There is a huge uproar about backscatter X-ray machines and the “groping” [...]
There is a huge uproar right now about the new full body scanners being deployed in airports around the United States. There are people loudly claiming that the TSA is handcuffing them to chairs for refusing to be scanned… TSA agents yelled at her, handcuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket… …and TSA [...]
At first thought, weaponry seems like a bad addition to the Olympics (unless we’re talking marksmanship, archery or, if you want to go ancient, javelin and shot-put). However, there’s a role for weapons in the Olympics that doesn’t culminate in competition or a swift arrest — it just involves a quick, compulsory melting.
London’s Metropolitan Police force recently announced that 58 tons of confiscated guns and knives — plus some keys thrown in for good measure — will be recycled into girders for the 2012 Olympic Games site in Stratford, East London.
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