At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

May I never forget the goodness of the Lord.

Life is denied by lack of attention whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

My later years are my treasure years.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.