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The case against the cellphone continues to grow more and more serious. Swiss researchers in a sleep laboratory at the University of Zurich have found that exposure to digital mobile phone radiation while awake causes changes in brain function even hours later during sleep.

The Swiss researchers conclude that “the changes in brain function induced by pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields outlast the exposure period.” Dr. Michael Petrides goes on to state, “The currently available literature suggests that some aspects of cognitive function and some direct measures of brain physiology may be affected by exposure to electromagnetic fields of the type emitted by cellular phones.”

The full text of this study is available at Issue 15.)
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I was cleaning out a cedar chest today, when I found a photo of him. I hadn’t thought about him in a long time; he was my first.

I could feel my heart beating faster as I gazed at the photograph. He’s the reason why I’ve been so hesitant to commit myself again, despite the fact that my friends tell me I’ve got to put the past behind me and get on with my life.

I wasn’t at home when he first arrived. I was on a Christmas vacation trip to Disneyworld with my son, then five. When Andrew was tucked into bed at night, after a long day of Disney, I would go to the phone and whisper covertly into the receiver, “Is he there yet?”
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Congress has just passed one of the worst bills ever devised. It is the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2001, which quietly adds powers to the Executive Branch that will extend unprecedented powers to the presidency and all but destroy the cause of intelligence reform.

It could not send out a clearer message: this congress intends to give the executive branch and the intelligence community unprecedented power to keep and enforce secrecy. Make no mistake, in a free society, secrecy is cancer, and our republic has the disease.
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On October 18, NASA issued an explanation of the strange lights that moved across the midwest around sunset on October 13. This explanation, based on calculations by satellite tracker Alan Pickup, was that the phenomenon was caused by the re-entry of a Russian Proton rocket that had been used to send up elements of a satellite tracking system a few hours before.
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