Domestic Security and Enhancement Act (Patriot II)
The Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan, public service journalism (non-profit) organization has published a leaked version of the Patriot II Act. You may recall after 9/11, the US enacted the Patriot Act, which allowed law enforcement organizations broader powers of surveillance and detention. Patriot II, as the new bill is dubbed, loosens the restrictions in place on law enforcement organizations even further. The act would allow the government to conduct domestic wiretapping without a court order; secretly detain citizens; detain any alien convicted of drug possession or an aggravated felony; access a citizen's credit history without a court order; ease restrictions on the use of secret evidence; and extend authorization for secret wiretaps and internet surveillance. Feels like they're moving back to the 1950s down there.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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