Earlier this year, Neocon apologist Christopher Hitchens, a defender of the practice of waterboarding, was challenged to undergo the experience himself. To his credit, Mr. Hitchens accepted, and has chronicled the experience in the August issue of Vanity Fair in an article entitled, “Believe Me, It’s Torture.” His conclusion?
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for […]
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A couple of quick thoughts, because at the moment I don’t have the time for or inclination toward pondering, but I cannot allow the Fourth of July to pass without one or two political comments.
First, from the outset I have resisted swallowing the Barack Obama Kool-Aid, not because I doubt his ability to govern the […]
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Thoughts on a failed democratic revolution
For now dissent has been crushed in Burma. Without teeth, United Nations mediation efforts failed. What gasp of life remains in the democracy movement has been driven deep underground. The junta’s storm troopers are relentless, laying low during the day while the world is watching, but coming to life at […]
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Picture 3 a.m. under a full moon. The city has been washed clean by rain that ended earlier, leaving in its wake a howling wind that propels ragged cloud remnants across the night sky, turning the moonlight off and on like a Valium afflicted neon sign. You walk the empty streets, hands jammed in the pockets of an old mackintosh, stopping now and then to gaze through darkened windows of vacant shops at their displays — strange mannequins painted as grotesque mimes. Or is it simply the way you perceive them in your insomniac state? (MORE)
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