Is it naive to believe that in our free society that the truth will percolate through the density of lies in the debate over health care reform? If legislation in its current forms are so bad, won’t the truth defeat them? If so, then why the lies? Does something rest below the surface?
The keenest fact [...]
We watched Walter Cronkite.
Walter’s most searing moment in history came when he directly challenged the Pentagon and the Johnson administration over Vietnam. Yet, as Glenn Greenwald writes, much of the discussion of Cronkite will miss a key and pointed criticism over the state of journalism today.
We read or hear that Cronkite called the Vietnam War [...]
… setting up a La Marzocco GS3 on the kitchen counter flanked by a Mazzer grinder and a big bag of exquisite post-roast blend espresso. To bad it has to travel and be put to work in catering. We’ll miss it those days.
Effectiveness versus morality, oh, how do we choose?
At the end of World War II we executed Japanese soldiers who used the “water torture,” known euphemistically in some circles today as an “enhanced interrogation technique.”*
But, that circles’ definition has lost against the facts of history and inconvenient memo. The aim now is to define waterboarding as [...]
Tanya Gold writes in The Guardian why the reaction to the phenomenal Susan Boyle is ugly.
Why are we so shocked when “ugly” women can do things, rather than sitting at home weeping and wishing they were somebody else? Men are allowed to be ugly and talented.
Without doubt, the perversely applied standards of beauty torture many [...]
