The Worst People in America: Dick Cheney*
Sean MurphyMOTHERFUCKER HAS SO MUCH blood on his hands he makes Lady Macbeth look like Snow White. I’m not sure what it says about me, but I’ve gone on record declaring, at…
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality (Revisited)
6/09: Anyone who happened to miss this piece by Lakhdar Boumediene, entitled My Guantánamo Nightmare should check it out, here. Here is a taste of the sickening, yet predictable torment this…
Orwell, Kafka and Us or, It’s All Part of Der Process
Back in 2008 Roger Cohen wrote the following in the New York Times – the same newspaper that declined to use the word “torture” as a matter of editorial policy: Of the 770…
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality (6/09)
Anyone who happened to miss this piece by Lakhdar Boumediene, entitled My Guantánamo Nightmare should check it out, here. Here is a taste of the sickening, yet predictable torment this…
It’s (Still) Not Only About Obama
The Nobel Peace Prize --and the general sense of optimism and expectation-- is not only about Obama. This was true before the election and it's true now. In addition to…
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
I've said all I care to say about the disgraceful state of affairs at Guantanamo (both the conditions there and the circumstances that brought people there) here and here. But…
February 19, 1942
On this day in 1942 Executive Order 9066 was issued. That is, the infamous presidential/executive order that, validated by America's state of war, gave a president (FDR) the power to consign…
It’s All Part of Der Process
From Andrew Sullivan's invaluable blog (TheDailyDish), comes the following (quoted from Roger Cohen's typically sane and salient perspective--this one, here is must reading--via The New York Times): Of the 770 detainees…