VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

But eventually let it go….
A child diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes? I have to wonder at what point and for what reasons doctors started giving so many vaccines at once anyway. How would they be able to determine which of the vaccines caused a negative reaction if there was a problem? And parents - [...]

I received an email today from Senator Saxby Chambliss, and I’m posting both his communication and my own.
Dear Ms. N: Thank you for contacting me regarding the National Security Agency’s (NSA) monitoring of conversations connected to terrorist activity and the treatment of military detainees. It is good to hear from you.
I certainly understand [...]

“The legislation directly conflicts with the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, requiring the government to obtain a warrant before reading the e-mail messages or listening to the telephone calls of its citizens, and to state with particularity where it intends to search and what it expects to find. Compounding these wrongs, Congress is moving in [...]

President Bush won’t fire his long-time friend U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales… he has too much to lose. He’s used to being able to say - “Here’s how I want it to be - you figure out the legal stuff.”
On Monday President Bush once again expressed his support: “I stand by Al Gonzales.” He accused [...]

I’ve just noticed the “aboutus.org” wiki. It looks as though they are trying to put together information on every domain.

AboutUs is a fully editable wiki, a type of Web site, that has been prepopulated with information about several million websites. Enter a domain name in the search box (for example: “Yahoo.com” or “AboutUs.org”) and see [...]

I wonder why the Department of Defense is reading this blog? Hmmmm.
The last time I got military or government hits like this on my site was when I had a rough draft of a chapter of my dissertation online. It was an analysis of pulp thrillers on bioterrorism. I understood why that might have [...]

Republican Pete Hoekstra, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has criticized Bush for hiding more surveillance programs from Congressional oversight. The NY Times has published his criticism of Bush on this matter.
On Fox News Sunday, Hoekstra said that a whistleblower came to him with several more spying operations that were in danger of being abused [...]