I remember being told I was pro-terrorist because I disagreed with the Bush/Cheney assertions that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the September 11 attacks. Given all the howling the Republicans are doing about the torture memos, I think I’m going to tell them they’re pro-torture. The difference is that my disagreement has been …
Check out the Earth Mosaic Flickr Group. Here’s my contribution.
This revelation doesn’t surprise me, but it horrifies me all over again. The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former …
You know the spindles that blank CDs are packed on? Who’s found an interesting use for them once they’re empty?
Seen at and cribbed directly from Making Light, which in turn got it from Charlie Pierce writing at Eric Alterman’s blog at The Nation: I have now lived through three major episodes in my life where the political elite have told me quite plainly that neither I nor my fellow citizens are sufficiently mature to …
If Rahm Emanuel is right when he says this on ABC yesterday: “Yeah, but those who devised the policy, he believes that they were, should not be prosecuted either,” Emanuel said. “And it’s not the place that we go, and as he said in that letter, and I would really recommend people look at the …
The NYT says that Zubaydah was a victim of waterboarding 83 times, but that it was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who got the treatment the other 183 times. I’ve read that section of the memo three times now, and it’s a little unclear to me just who the recipient was of that second round. Either way, …
Update below. Page 37 of the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo shows that The CIA used the waterboard “at least 83 times during August 2002” in the interrogation of Zubaydah. IG Report at 90, and 183 times during March 2003 in the interrogation of KSM, see id. at 91. Um. 183rd time is the charm? …
Let me assure you that not all baseball fans in the country are enamored of the Yankees, and that those of us west of the US mainland in fact would prefer to see the Dodgers play the Rockies. That’s particularly true when the Yankees give up 14 runs in the second inning, thus making the …
No, no. The kind that comes with your camera and often drives you crazy because it a) flashes when you don’t need it or b) gives you such crummy light that it makes the image humbug. Read David Pogue for tips on controlling the miserable accessory.