(Found on the HuffPo) Ron Suskind gave a great interview to Spiegel Online, about US interrogation policy, the Black Sites, and how we’ve pretty much screwed ourselves out of being able to get good intelligence since the Iraq War.
New Jersey’s Supreme Court has mandated under their constitution that the state must, in essence, permit same-sex marriage. Leaving open the question of whether or not to call it “marriage”, the court found that all the rights and benefits accorded to heterosexual couples must be afforded to same-sex couples. Now, this doesn’t come at a [...]
…but keep it up: 25 comments makes for $50 to a good charity. Go, team, go!
Found this on Kos. Michael J Fox ad for Claire McCaskill. Man, I want the Dems to win in November. Take back the House and Senate, please.
Found on Innocent Abroad. HowManyOfMe.com There are:5people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Well, I know one of them… But five? I’m sort of surprised.
OK, September’s 5×5 was, frankly, a disaster. I expect better this month. Of course, I need to come up with better 5x5s, so maybe I’ll shoulder some modicum of the blame here. Anyway, the time has come again to take a moment from my spleen-venting about our increasingly evil government, to be part of the [...]
That people still arrive here by googling on “I hate Rick Santorum”. Of course, hating Rick Santorum may lose some of its savor, soon. Hope so.
Bilal Hussein, AP photographer, has been held by the US for over six months without charge. Jose Padilla knows exactly what protections US citizenship will afford you if the government suspects you of being a terrorist. Maher Arar was tortured for a year before folks said, “Ooops, you’re innocent, aren’t you?” Ali Partovi has been [...]
Here is a Dove commercial about how the media image of beauty is more than a little fake. (from Boing Boing)
