From one of the torture memos released today: Sleep deprivation may be used. You have indicated that your purpose in using this technique is to reduce the individual’s ability to think on his feet and, through the discomfort associated with lack of sleep, to motivate him to cooperate. The effect of such sleep deprivation will …

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Watching Obama on a red carpet in Mexico City makes me wish there was a foreign country whose musical signature was the polka. Then the accompanying tune for these ceremonial events could be Roll Out the Barrel (caution: the tune plays upon opening that page).