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Apr 22, 2009 10:49

Torture. The NY Times has a decent overview today, addressing the question of how exactly the US went from prosecuting things like waterboarding as torture, to using them.

It turns out that the real world actually does not function like 24. Torture is not only horrific, not only ineffective, but also counterproductive. We think that it's just ( Read more... )

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It's Good to (Vaguely) Know an Anthropoligist/Realist archlords April 22 2009, 22:39:53 UTC

I'm sure someone in the G.O.P. knows one, too; he just doesn't believe him.

I also still don't understand how Fox News and The Simpsons are owned by the same company.

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