Tuesday, June 19, 2007

"You don't need a weatherman/to know which way the wind blows"

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Reviewing just some of the stories on torture still making the rounds in the two years since I started posting on the subject, I see nothing...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

My Father's Day Cards can beat up your Father's Day Cards!

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As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

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I'm assuming this is the Tena I know from Eschaton and from comments here more recently. I really don't want to comment on the unde...
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Just when you think it can't get any worse

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Seymour Hersh on Abu Ghraib . “The whole idea that Rumsfeld projects—‘We’re here to protect the nation from terrorism’—is an oxymoron,” Tagu...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

Vanity of vanities....

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I heard Michael Parenti quoting this today: [T]he policy of the [Roman] Empire was directed only toward its preservation and therefore was n...
Friday, June 15, 2007

"Sick" is too kind an adjective

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A break from our relentless pursuit of definitions to recommend that, if you didn't hear/see it yesterday, you really should listen to t...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Enemy Combatant

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I'm not satisfied that any of this is definitive, but I've done a little digging (googling, actually) into the issue of 'enemy c...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Speaking of "defining evil"

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"Military justice is to justice as military music is to music." What I know of military law is contained in that cliche, one I rem...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Can we first define "evil"?

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The nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in February, 2007 : In his opening remarks, Mullen, a Vietnam War veteran, told Pearl...