A man with a rifle killed four people in Santa Monica, and wounded others. This attack was comparable in magnitude to the Boston bombing.

Angelinos clamored immediately for the whole Los Angeles metro area to be shut down, like Boston, but Hollywood told Obama not to do that. So he responded with a plan called Keep Us Really Safe Everywhere, or KURSE, which would implant a radio-transmitter ID in every person in the US and put a detector on every door.

Senator Feinstein said, "Once we put a KURSE on every American, nobody will be able to attack you, unless he does it through a window."

This levity is not intended to make light of the deaths and injuries in Santa Monica, nor those in Boston. Any person's death is a tragedy. The point is to ridicule the idea that certain killings in Boston were far worse than all others.

It's Not Just About US: How the NSA Threatens Human Rights Internationally.

Europeans feel threatened by the US push to expand high-tech surveillance and warfare without limits on their use.

Growing concern about India's 'cyber snooping agency'.

The Education Declaration opposes the business-driven plan to privatize public schooling and thus ruin it.