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We've said it before, but Bob Speer says it well—and do go to the links at the end of the article.

<I>Wired</I> has published key documents from the EFF's lawsuit against ATT&T for allegedly cooperating with the NSA'S domestic surveillance program. Former AT&T tech Mark Klein, who outed these documents, also offers his commentary.

Fifty percent of you don't know what that headline is about; the rest of you know I'm talking about the results of eating asparagus.

<I>Big Rock Candy Mountain</I> ruminates on the immigration issue and posts MP3 files of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" and Billy Bragg's "Waiting For the Great Leap Forward." What a perfect post: Passion, good writin', and great polemics.

I read <I>The San Francisco Gate</I> every morning as part of my my get-ready-to-work ritual, mostly, I admit, for Jon Carroll's fine column, which teaches that wit and grace mean that you don't actually have to have anything to write about (but when he <I>does</I> have something to write about, it's always a corker). Now I've added the link below, which traces the adventures of reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, who had the audacity to break the BALCO juicing scandal.

Some unnamed genius has been blogging the Trojan War, and Achilles is now dead. Of course, he's been dead for centuries, but mother of Zeus, it seems so immediate this way.

I wrote this guy off back in the 1980s, when he essentially dismissed audiophiles as kooks&mdash;and this from a computer geek? But, by God, <I>this</I> is worth reading.