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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…
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…
If you piss off your IT staff, maybe you should be a bit more careful about what they can find on your hard drive. Outsourced IT staff fingered porn stash banker By Lucy Sherriff Porn-surfing bank supremo Michael Soden was…
The White Mouse: World War II’s most decorated woman
The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing Today’s educational establishment is making actual illiteracy look good, like an act of humanity and rebellion. Writing, which ought to nurture and give shape to thought, is instead being used to pound it into…
Wildcat’s owner seeks its return The lynx is Buckhead is owned by a licensed breeder of exotic cats who lives and works in the Buckhead area. The breeder says that a tree damaged Sasquatch’s cage, allowing him to escape. See,…
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