Special Report: How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps America's soldiers | Reuters.

The Brave New Workplace World Includes Data Sensors Monitoring Employees at All Times.

There’s No Justice When the Spied-On Have No Voice – Bloomberg.

If you’re not a U.S. Supreme Court (1000L) junkie, you wouldn’t know that the single topic that most exercised the justices in the decisions issued in late June was the arcane law of standing. This is the requirement that every case before the court pose two parties against each other, arguing the opposite sides of the case at hand. … Adversarial standing isn’t generally the stuff of headlines….

Less Than Total Recall – ProPublica.

In Wisconsin, Life after Collective Bargaining | Alternet.

Ex-Marine Arrested for Wearing Wrong T-Shirt at Supreme Court! | Alternet.

Land of the Free II: Police As Military Edition – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money.

Undernews: The corporate media's long relationship with the spook world may help explain why it doesn't like Snowden.

BBC News – Ian Brady: How easy is it to fake mental illness?.

Opinion is Not Fact | Alternet.

Teen Justin Carter Jailed In Texas After Making Sarcastic Threat In Facebook Comment.

Maybe it’s time the Internet adopted a “sarcasm” tag to alert readers to the use of irony in online conversation, and, hopefully, avoid situations like that of Justin Carter, a Texas teenager who has been in jail since February over a Facebook comment that failed to make a woman in Canada LOL.

New Book Documents Cold War Experiments on Kids | NBC 10 Philadelphia.

What the First Arrest Captured on Google Glass Really Means – Connor Simpson – The Atlantic Wire.

What I’m getting at is there were very few barriers left for this medium to cross, besides the obvious unseemly one, before Barrett went out and captured the first fight and subsequent arrest using the extended video recording option. And no, this isn’t a video of the person wearing Google Glass getting beat up. (Though we’re sure that will happen soon.)

Harassment suit against egg farm brings settlement, but no charges | The Center for Investigative Reporting.

“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control – Salon.com.

Report finds female inmates were sterilized in California prisons without state approval – Salon.com.