Eugene Robinson – Arizona’s new immigration law is an act of vengeance

I like Eugene. Here he is telling it like it is.

Activists for Latino and immigrant rights — and supporters of sane governance — held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn’t the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim — and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state — would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish?

Make: Online : You can be identified by the germs you leave behind

Interesting and frightening news from the world of viruses and bacteria.

Straight out of Gattaca comes news that you can be tracked by the germs you leave behind on surfaces. More on this here.

In a more dangerous to your health than you privacy story, some information on MRSA that both cleared up some myths but also put a real sense of the dangers of the virus into my awareness.