thursday-things that i need

• all the rights guaranteed to me by the bill of rights (follow the link--see what you're missing out on)
• the great writ of habeas corpus: check out olbermann and ivins to see how nice it was when we still had its protection; check out the actual military commissions act and judge for yourself; and here's a little reminder of the alien and sedition acts of 1798, so you can see that other president's have signed unconstitutional laws (spoiler, those expired when adams left office, but can you imagine how much this administration would love to bring them back)
• i apparently need to stop taking history classes.