Things are likely to be quiet around WTW this week as both Six and I will be away most of the week.  I'll be back Thursday.

Wayne Madsen claimed way back in December of 2005 that the NSA had begun serious spying/eavesdropping before 9/11 ever occurred.  While I've never seen confirmation of Madsen's particular claim, there's a new allegation reported by Bloomberg (among others) that the NSA asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

A group called Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities has issued a report concluding that "No One is Accountable" for financial management in the Department of Defense.

In a rather mystifying analysis of why so many Western nations have declining birth rates, the Pope has fingered secularism.

Sports seem to be an absolute magnet for religious people and concepts.  We've all seen the winning athletes credit their success to God's will and God-given talent, while the losers are strangely silent on God's sudden dislike of them and their own sudden lack of God-given talent.

Now there is a report that a major league baseball team, the Colorado Rockies, have embraced "a Christian-based code of conduct they believe will bring them focus and success."

Having already used up the concept of a "Contract with America," what would a group of unscrupulous, politically ambitious but intellectually bankrupt far right politicians come up with to try to preserve their elected butts?

Remember the difficulty the U.S. was having filling its military recruitment quotas?  Betcha can't guess one likely reason that they've been doing better lately.

For those who think the current Republican Party lacks everything but sleaze, it was a pretty good week.

"Illegal combatants" is the term commonly used to describe those "detainees" in the custody of the U.S. and our allies whom we have determined are not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Conventions.

Two and a quarter centuries ago, the British apparently made the exact same decision as to the American colonists in open rebellion against the Crown, and treated American prisoners about as abysmally as the detainees in the war on terror are being treated.

Fill in the blanks sociology:

Quick quiz: how many times have you seen this statement, or something very much like it, in a news story on a famous-turned-infamous figure?

[NAME] rose from a poor [OCCUPATION OF FATHER] son to become a millionaire before being convicted of [FILL IN CRIME].

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