Too funny ...

By Richard B. Schmitt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism.

Someday, it might actually meet.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-liberties20feb20,0,4164820,full.story

Day's laugh

''We have to balance the paramount urgency of security against the fact that we still want to have a robust global trading system.''

-- Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security director

But fuck the rights of Americans. We'll shove a spycam up your ass if we so desire

Mythic Journeys

A number of you have asked about this Mythic Journeys convention that I'm co-chairing. It started as a celebration of the centennial of Joseph Campbell's (The Power of Myth, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, inspiration for Star Wars, etc.) birth and morphed into something much larger.

We put out a monthly newsletter that can tell you more about it. You can find that newsletter here:

http://www.mythicjourneys.org/newsletter_current.html