Wonkette

“Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”

If you answered “Rudy Giuliani,” give yourself a jaunty Soviet cap and report to Siberian Work Camp #207. Thanks for playing!

Guiliani: Freedom is about authority [Boing Boing]

• “Oceania (commonly called the US and Britain) is at war with Afghanistan Iraq. Oceania has always been at war with Afghanistan Iraq.” [Students for Orwell]
• Dave Eggers can even make freedom seem cloying and precious. [Gawker]
• Failure.
• Another failure: Mikey Brown runs from flood on the FEMA kids website. [FEMA]
• Maybe rather than spending time on a “porn squad,” the FBI could protect kids from pictures of dead Iraqis being traded for porn. [Is That Legal?]