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The Canadian Government

November 21, 2001 by Michael Boyle

has finally agreed to include a sunset clause in its anti-terrorism bill, the merits of which are doubtful at best.

One of my all-time

November 21, 2001 by Michael Boyle

great friends is in the Post today in a story about the perils of being named Buffy.

in the NY Times: Today’s News Quiz. The only thing I’d add is that our own democracies, though robust, could use a little refreshing as well. All this stuff about holding people without charges and summary judgements and general reduction of civil liberties in the post 9/11 world is profoundly anti-democratic. And it is my deep belief that the only clear way out of this whole mess is to strengthen our democracy, not to dilute it with hysterical laws and such.

Also noted

November 20, 2001 by Michael Boyle

is this year’s World AIDS Day observance: Link and Think. Last year I participated in A Day Without Weblogs, and I’ll certainly do my best to do the same this Dec. 1.

I haven’t been able

November 20, 2001 by Michael Boyle

to find the time to update this site in a couple of days, but some really interesting stuff has been published in that time. Foremost among these is Timothy Garton Ash’s article in The New York Review of Books: Is There a Good Terrorist? [hat tip to Rebecca’s Pocket]