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Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president wasn’t bound by laws prohibiting torture and that government agents who might torture prisoners at his direction couldn’t be prosecuted by the Justice…
We weren’t made to multitask It’s readily apparent that handling two things at once is much harder than handling one thing at a time. Spend too much time trying to juggle more than one objective and you’ll end up wanting…
Tough by Leon Wieseltier A war that asked for a quickening of conscience cannot now ask for a relaxing of it.… But what about the death of Israeli children at the hands of Palestinians? I resent the question for its…
Ganked from winds_of_change: Sensors Track Martial Arts Blows Researchers from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Stanford University, and Impact Measurement have brought computers into a martial arts sparring ring with a system that senses the force of a hit. The…
Why do random 18-year-old girls send me emails asking me “what other precautions” they should take on a trip they shouldn’t be going on in the first place? She’s getting on a bus for 8 hours to go see a…
We’re looking at Great Pyrenees on a local rescue group’s web site, and curiousmay9 and I have fallen in love. Hopelessly. Sam has much subjected to much squealing of “PUPPY!” and so on. We were going to wait at least…
What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide by Jana Riess “At last, a Buffy book as smart as Buffy, the show. Riess has given us the key to understanding the subtle theology of slayage, but her book…
There are SUPPOSED to be random quotes appearing on https://www.technomom.com/hs/index.html. I’m just seeing a little box right now. I added five quotes to the quotes file (which is embedded in the page). I don’t see any errors in it, but…
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. Leadership…
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