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Water boarding is dunking, just like at the carnival?
Still waiting on video of Sean Hannity being water boarded. Darn those busy schedules. He called water boarding “dunking,” which must mean it’s like the carnival event with softballs and a water tank. Such fun? Only, upside down, tied up and not in control of when you get out to breath.
Hannity is cunning. Language like [...]
Effective versus Moral
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 [...]
Earth shaking handshaking
Men I find to be a Sort of Beings very badly constructed, as they are generally more easily provok’d than reconcil’d, more dispos’d to do Mischief to each other than to make Reparation, much more easily deceiv’d than undeceiv’d, and having more Pride and even Pleasure in killing than in begetting one another …
Benjamin Franklin
Does [...]
Why our reaction to Susan Boyle is what is ugly
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 [...]
