Over the weekend, George Bush vetoed a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other forms of torture.
In this video (via boingboing), former FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan, who was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “Taxi To The Dark Side”, says that, while torture is practically worthless as an intelligence-gathering tool compared to standard interrogation, it has been most effective in persuading people in Muslim countries that jihad against the U.S. is morally acceptable.
So do photos like this recently-released picture from Abu Ghreib (WARNING: graphic violent image).
We have become the very thing we say we wish to destroy.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
Since you cannot click a [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
