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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\nAnd speaking of science-fiction: good god<\/em>, these must be some powerful anti-depressants I’m taking<\/a>, because this doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it should.<\/p>\n House votes to extend Patriot Act<\/a><\/p>\n And while we’re on the subject, I’m curious to see how all this plays out and if New Yorkers (well, specifically our friends) really find it to be an “obstruction of, like, freedom” or just a terrible nuisance. In some strange way, it kind of make me miss living in New York. I suppose it’s because it’s just one of those things that would’ve affected our daily lives if we still lived there. Or maybe I’m just seeing too much romance in random bag-checks.<\/p>\n It’s Time for Tougher Scrutiny, Many Subway Riders Concede<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maybe it’s all the hours I’ve been spending on a slow-moving remote desktop connection to the other side of the globe, but doesn’t my cellphone bear more than just a passing resemblance to Spock’s coffin from the 2nd and 3rd … Continue reading
![good god<\/em>, these must be some powerful anti-depressants I’m taking<\/a>, because this doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it should.<\/p>\nHouse votes to extend Patriot Act<\/a><\/p>\nAnd while we’re on the subject, I’m curious to see how all this plays out and if New Yorkers (well, specifically our friends) really find it to be an “obstruction of, like, freedom” or just a terrible nuisance. In some strange way, it kind of make me miss living in New York. I suppose it’s because it’s just one of those things that would’ve affected our daily lives if we still lived there. Or maybe I’m just seeing too much romance in random bag-checks.<\/p>\nIt’s Time for Tougher Scrutiny, Many Subway Riders Concede<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maybe it’s all the hours I’ve been spending on a slow-moving remote desktop connection to the other side of the globe, but doesn’t my cellphone bear more than just a passing resemblance to Spock’s coffin from the 2nd and 3rd … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.mnftiu.cc\/mnftiu.cc\/images\/war.046.gif\"){kind=link}