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WASHINGTON - The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers did not say, and ( Read more... )

 A guy wearing a fleece  jacket with the collar upturned, corduroy pants and a blue-tooth festooned ear, what I like to call the "Mr. Pacific Northwest" look,  just ordered a protein salad from the PCC prepared-foods counter.  When I was a lad a protein salad meant something completely different ( Read more... )

 I just bathed with free soap.  Thanks Disney World Resort circa 2005!

After seeing recent comedies from McKay and Apatow, the trailer for Mike Meyer's new movie just looks incredibly old fashioned and irrelevant.

Still, people were laughing at the new Adam Sandler trailer, so what do i know.

BTW - I was able to see a bunch of Stepbrothers, Adam McKay's new movie, and it looks friggin hilarious.

The movies I have seen recently ( Read more... )

I get  that American Apparel is good for the economy as all the items are "made in America" - a slogan they're trying to have mean something again - and I think that's great.  But honestly, it is the sexiness of their adverts that is driving me to the store these days.  Short pants and high socks?  Yes please...

I salute you American Apparel.

I loathe the term "guilty pleasure".  I just don't like to feel guilty about any pleasure, even though, at times, I do.  My own christian upbringing, albeit ever-so-slightly thus, has given me at least enough guilt to know that I shouldn't enjoy 1/2 of the things I do 3/4 as much, and that I should feel 10 times as guilty as I have.  But the church ( Read more... )

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10,000 BC = 10,000 X terrible

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