The Senate is voting to extend, for six years, the march to 1984. Companies collect body measurements, promising better fitting clothes. The Pentagon recommends a bigger nuclear button. These stories and more on today’s show! See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.
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Program Notes
In a close vote, the Senate ends debate on warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens
Senate should reauthorize FISA Section 702 this week to fight terror at home and around the world
The Supreme Court’s Opportunity to Legalize Privacy
Companies race to gather a newly prized currency: Our body measurements
Pentagon Suggests Countering Devastating Cyberattacks With Nuclear Arms
Google’s art selfies aren’t available in Illinois. Here’s why. HT Al Meyer
G.O.P. to Use Children’s Health Insurance as Lure for Averting Shutdown
There are a lot of things we want, that would violate people’s rights if we were to impose them.
Sure, get rid of the lotteries. And get rid of the welfare magnet. And stop subsidizing refugees. But then let people in unless they pose a security risk. That’s the American way. https://t.co/fkd7Truh2s
— Amy Peikoff 🇺🇸 (@AmyPeikoff) January 14, 2018
Eliza Dushku Says Stuntman Assaulted Her When She Was 12
Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader. HT David Cohen
The Aziz Ansari debacle proves it’s time for a new sexual revolution
Horror for 13 California Siblings Hidden by Veneer of a Private Home School
Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ are shaping up to be a total flop
The winner of the Fake News Award is the Fake News Award. https://t.co/HTdHThycsf
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 17, 2018
Attack Watch as a Case Study of How Force Stops Thinking
Bannon Is Subpoenaed in Mueller’s Russia Investigation HT Benjamin Chayes
Don't Let It Go 
“When asked the cause of their arrests they told me it was due to public disorder.
For Cuban dictators, public disorder means exercising the right to free speech.
For Cuban dictators, public disorder means denouncing the injustices that they commit every day.
For Cuban dictators, public disorder means not submitting to slavery.
For Cuban dictators, public disorder is simply to be — and want to remain — free.
The Cuban libertarians will not remain indifferent to this injustice.
Forward to freedom!”