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Month: January, 2008

Books For An Age Of Government Spying

22 January, 2008 (12:29) | Reading List | No comments

Get yourself some background reading so that you can start to prepare for these spying times. A reading list for people interested in learning more about and preparing themselves for the government’s increasing electronic spying against American citizens.

Austen’s Works More Than Complete On WGBH Series

21 January, 2008 (11:28) | Video, creators | No comments

Lovers of Jane Austen’s novels will want to tune in to PBS this year, which is playing an adaptation of every one of Jane Austen’s works, plus a movie of biographical fiction based upon her life, Miss Austen Regrets. Persuasion played a week ago. Northanger Abbey was on last night. Both of [...]

Sara Paretsky Takes On Homeland Security

20 January, 2008 (11:29) | creators | No comments

My attention was caught yesterday afternoon by an interview of author Sara Paretsky interview by The Progressive. Paretsky discussed her identity as an author of crime fiction, but then talked about her non-fiction interests, which seem focused on the threats to American liberty posed by the american government’s transformation into a nationalist regime of [...]