Author: Sonny Bunch
By • Aug 19,2008

Torture or not torture, cont.

Though I think we’re quickly approaching the land of diminishing returns, this is my response to John Schwenkler’s response to my response to his criticism of my argument that segregating...

By • Aug 19,2008

Video of the Day

The Film Drunkard posted this awesome animated short. It’s long, but neat. Give it a watch:

By • Aug 18,2008

Two Obama-related notes

In the waking of the massive FUBAR situation in Georgia, Jamie Kirchick points out over at Contentions just why we should try and avoid one-on-one talks with dictators when the...

By • Aug 17,2008

That's the whole point

This paragraph over at the HuffPo is as amusing as it is frustrating: Well, I thought I would bang on about this for a while, let’s say as long as...

By • Aug 15,2008

One more Olympics note

How should the “winner” of the medal race be counted? Only by gold medals won, as the ChiComs want, or by total medals, as the USOC appears to want? This...

By • Aug 15,2008

Cheaters and sticklers

Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon has this to say about playing by the rules: The cheaters have to learn to play fair, and the sticklers have to figure out when...