The rumor [via The Sideshow] is that Rush Limbaugh wants you to boycott newspapers that carry Doonesbury because of this strip. Pretty good credentials, if you ask me: go, Gary! The truth hurts?

Happy Thanksgiving, in gratitude and grace, to you and yours.

Saudi Sees No bin Laden-Iraq Link. The former intelligence chief in Riyadh says his govt will not support making Iraq a target of the war on terrorism. NY Times

New Sensors Report, ‘I Know They’re in There, I Can See Them Breathing’

Something Missing in Fragile Cloud Forest: The Clouds: ‘Bathed in a curtain of life-giving fog and mist, the Monteverde cloud forest in the mountains of Costa Rica is a profusion of dripping green that

stands as an international model of conservation gone right. But despite Monteverde’s tens of thousands of protected acres, scientists say this

tropical luxuriance, beloved by biologists and eco-tourists alike, may be at risk: the clouds that bathe the mountains seem to be disappearing.

The problem, scientists say, is deforestation, but not within Monteverde’s vast network of reserves. Instead, in a new study in Science, researchers report

evidence that deforestation in the lowlands is lifting the mountains’ curtain of life-giving fog and mist out of the forest’s reach, leaving more and more of

what had been cloud forest without clouds.’ NY Times

Intensive ACLU opposition to use of facial recognition software targets Fresno and other airports, including Logan in my own city, that plan to implement it. Intrusiveness is only justified by the security benefits it brings, but “…it is abundantly clear that the security benefits of such an approach would be minimal to non-existent, for a very simple reason: the technology doesn’t work.” Links to ACLU’s FAQ abut facial recognition and facts on airport security.