We were sitting at the Slanted Door down on the Embarcadero a few years ago, watching a procession of young, swan-like and striking women walk languidly by to their tables. There are lots of beautiful San Franciscans but this was weird, like there was a runway model convention in town. Only they seemed to be arriving separately, with boyfriends, parents, other statuesque women. It was endless. ...
Full-body scans are like your first visit to a nude beach. Or Barack Obama's first year in office: unreasonably high expectations dashed by dumpy, lumpy pedestrian reality. We should thank Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz for pushing an amendment earlier this year banning full-body airport scans. At least someone is showing a little taste in the stampede to make people look at other ...
"In the 21st century, can facts matter?" Good question from Mitch Kapor, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, at a UC Berkeley forum on the Future of the Forum last weekend. "How do we make facts matter? Or is that hopeless?" Ouch. More potential bad news for journalists searching for their future value, and also for the public hoping to sort out the massive scrum of ...
