By • Apr 23,2009

An idle thought…

What if Barack Obama has been all “forgive and forget” on enhanced interrogations because he knew what the CIA and others were doing all along? He was, after all, on...

By • Apr 23,2009

Hayden on Waterboarding

Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA, walked a fine line this past Sunday on the question of whether waterboarding is torture. His message seemed to be, “I know...

By • Apr 22,2009

I’m an angry gorilla

Because shit is getting altogether too heavy in these quarters — Death threats! Calls for socialized medicine! Torture! — allow me to present you with 2:40 of pure joy. Thank...

By • Apr 21,2009

Demolish West Point!

Yes, serious journalist Thomas Ricks really did propose shutting down the United States Military Academy, aka West Point. Ricks wants to shut down the Naval Academy (aka Annapolis) and the...

By • Apr 21,2009

Torture

I’m trying to get my head around both the recently released memos and the issue as a whole. I believe that torture is wrong and that it doesn’t work. But...

By • Apr 20,2009

A health care follow up

Let me second David’s call for a streamlined health care system; having spent a year on a COBRA program (at something like $500 a month, IIRC), I can attest to...