The war on freedom

It's just as good as lost. Our masters have lulled us into a groggy state and have clobbered us with the club of oppression. We've reached the end of the line in a long struggle for personal freedom, privacy, liberty, security and human rights. We are now headed in reverse. It's anyone's guess how far back our overlords will take us.

I just read an article in The National Post concerning whether police in Canada have the right to order communications companies to forward text messages sent between their customers to police without a warrant. The  Supreme Court is expected to rule on this question today (March 27, 2013). In this same article, I discovered that police in Ontario have already won the right to peruse a person's cell phone (without a warrant) if it is not password-protected or not locked against unauthorized use.

This has infuriated me. Of all the preposterous reasons one can come up with to usurp our privacy, this is one of the most inane. It's the equivalent of saying that if you forget to lock your back door, police are free to enter and snoop around at will. Just because one doesn't fortify his private property doesn't mean he relinquishes all rights to that property. If you inadvertently leave your car door unlocked, can police legally search it? The argument is ridiculous.

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Diarrhea Explosion

How dreary would our lives be without the internet to enrich our experiences each and every day? Almost every foray into the web produces at least some prose, image audio or video that will stay with us a long time. And it often results from the unexpected--like these little gems:


Did you know that Amazon.com has "A community about diarrhea explosion."? And that they encourage you to "Share your images and discuss your questions with diarrhea explosion experts."? How does one become a diarrhea explosion expert? Is there a Diarrhea Explosion University? Do you exit with a BS in DE?

A couple of links further down the page and we're told about:

Diarrhea Explosion - Band Biography and mp3s/songs...

Clinking on the link reveals that there are indeed people who purposely named themselves "Diarrhea Explosion". I will forgo all the ca-ca jokes, but I would have been a lot happier if the link had turned out to be fake, and was simply created by inserting the search terms into the link name.

If you care to be further enriched, check out the other 425,000 links.