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Given that the entire global economy has tanked in the wake of unscrupulous lending practices that began in the US sub-prime home mortgage market, you would think that CNN, the self-proclaimed 'Worldwide Leader in News,' might chose to distance itself from mortgage lenders as customers for a while, at least until things cool off and the DOW rebounds a bit more. Instead, CNN had sold

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Merchants in Chinatown have been harassed for selling 'illegal' goods for as long as I can remember. When I first moved to Manhattan, I recall watching an exposé on the local 6 o'clock news about pet turtles that carry salmonella. It's against the law to sell them in NYC, and the crack Action News team managed, with their concealed camera, to film several of them swimming blissfully in a bowl,

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I have said before in this blog that 'we need an agency whose overarching mission is to ensure the safety of our food and drugs.' My point, one that I seem to be repeating a lot, is that our current FDA is more akin to a trade association. It's natural instincts are to downplay risks to prevent undue harm to large corporations, during which time great harm could be ensuing amongst the public

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With regard to the imminent release of 17 Uighurs from their indefinite detention at Guantanamo, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has demanded their repatriation, offering assurances that they would not subsequently be tortured, because China is a nation ruled by law and does not torture. Did they copy this from a US Justice Department press release? First they pirate our DVDs and now our legalistic

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I read this when it first appeared and thought his analysis was an extreme worst-case scenario.Of course, the reason I bother to keep up with Krugman is that his economic insight is always illuminating, even when I disagree with him. This time he gets extra points for seeing into the future. The date on the column is March 17, 2008. <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:7A0B104D-7316-4356-AF5C-30EB6A5DB1FB

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Capgras Delusion is a psychiatric syndrome that manifests itself in this way: one morning a person awakes to find that the people close to him have seemingly been replaced by exact duplicates, each a perfect impostor in every way, lacking only in authenticity. It can happen also that one so stricken gains a sense that he, himself, is a mere facsimile. Perhaps this is something like waking

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  When the Bush administration finally passes the torch, how much evidence will they need to destroy? Granted, their brand of hubris has been marked by a willingness to perpetrate crimes in the light of day, but still, there will likely be troves of documents in need of rapid destruction. Look for smoke coming out of the White House. Cheney, I suppose, has already had to get a jump on things.

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Why would any guy think this would be a cool thing to do?Woman realizes how lame her boyfriend is while thousands of fans look on.

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America's favorite trailer trash has been roundly denounced and derided to the point where it has become fashionable to defend her. Having overdone our criticism of this model of a sex kitten-mother-girl-woman, we must now critique the critics for piling on the misogyny.Besides the important lesson that sloppy parenting is best done in private, Britney also teaches us a lot about art. Even if one

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Stay tuned to the NBC downloads recently announced to be offered by Amazon's Unbox Service. The gist is this: NBC left iTunes over a disagreement about pricing. Episodes on iTunes go for a couple of bucks each. Apple says NBC wants 5 bucks per episode, but NBC says not quite, but rather, they want "flexibility in … pricing."Why this is interesting is that it asks a fundamental question about the

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There's a test of common sense going on in Connecticut. The story about the white powder that was puffed up to a terrorist threat is well worth watching.A pair of fun runners used flour to mark a trail through an Ikea parking lot for their running club, and for doing so, they've been charged with a felony."You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know," [New Haven Mayoral

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If you're reading this post because of its eminently Google-able title, you've come to the right place. I'd like to welcome you with this suggestion: we should have an agency whose mission it is to help ensure the safety of our food and drugs. I know there's something called the "Food and Drug Agency," but it's clear that their charter is strictly one of reassurance, and they exist mainly to calm

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There have been some spectacular falls in the news lately, and for those into gravity impact porn, the following videos provide ample pleasure.But another fall, just as painful, is the plummet of those formerly known as working Americans and their wages.A seattle newspaper analyzed jobs data in Washington state (and here too) to find an unsurprising yet horrifying trend: Jobs that are being

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An article in the Los Angeles Times made me think of the old days. Because nothing is new, and Bush ripped his moves from the playbook of the Nazi Party, I could not help thinking of Hitler when I read of how Congress' attempt to enforce the law against White House malfeasance is being scuttled by a Justice Department that puts the president above the Law.The essential brilliance in Hitler's

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We are accustomed to the White House denying what 71% of Americans believe is the truth, which is that Bush's war in Iraq is a lost and hopeless cause. But there's a deeper truth that we have yet to consider.Leaving Iraq is impossible. It cannot be done. Therefore, it will not happen; we will never leave Iraq.Even if we put aside the moral dilemma of deserting a civil war for which we bear full

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Watching the sublimely perfect Soprano's farewell episode got me thinking about Ken Burns. Why? Because no one told David Chase how he should finish his movie. He gets to sing "I did it my way." Not so for Ken Burns, who has been pressured by Latino activists and even the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to include more Hispanic perspectives in his documentary "The War", a history of WWII. Mr.

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I have no idea of her intention or ability, but if supermodel, Gisele Bundchen, continues to speak her mind, she could become the new spokesmodel for the feminist agenda.At fashion week in (way Catholic) Brazil, she spoke out in favor of condoms …"It's ridiculous to ban contraceptives -- you only have to think of the diseases that are transmitted without them. I think it should be compulsory to

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Cindy Sheehan may have had it with the peace movement, but Marine Corps Sgt. Adam Kokesh appears to be just getting started. He and 14 others were arrested for unlawful assembly while staging a mock military funeral in the Hart Senate Office Building.At the hearings of Alberto Gonzales to the Senate Judiciary Cmte, Sgt. Kokesh editorialized silently and graphically, and with awe inspiring

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I remember well the distinct feeling of being punched in the gut, though it wasn't the first time and wouldn't be the last. The date was December 14, 2004, and President Bush had just awarded the Medal of Freedom to George Tenet, Tommy Franks, and Jerry Bremer. In the President's words, These three men symbolize the nobility of public service, the good character of our country, and the good

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Bush's war in Iraq is a failure, and those who think otherwise are fooling themselves. This week, House Republican leader, John Boehner, demonstrated the language of charade:"We don't even have all of the 30,000 additional troops in Iraq yet, so we're supporting the president. We want this plan to have a chance of succeeding. ...Early signs are indicating there is clearly some success on a number

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A recent study suggests that THC can trigger psychotic symptoms. Researchers observed that experiment subjects sometimes experienced hallucinations and feelings of paranoia after being dosed with straight-up tetrahydrocannabinol. While this effect has generally been verified by countless millions of individual pothead investigators worldwide, it remains unclear whether or not this is a big deal.

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When we heard about massive systematized cheating at Duke University's business school, many lamented the state of today's youth. How is it they think they can get away with such breaches of integrity, we asked with indignant rhetoric.But our entire culture is now a perversion of right and wrong.These are not young people cheating at Duke, but rather students whose average age is 29 years, and

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First, in the spirit of full disclosure, I'd like to divulge the fact that, until recently, I owned Halliburton stock. I dumped it when the misunderstanding which developed surrounding certain unintended KBR billing overages made me nervous. It's one thing to add extra sand to the concrete, after all Iraq has plenty of sand, but please, no-bid contractors, don't mess with my boys' MREs. War

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This week in Alabama, the ATF uncovered a paramilitary group with a cache of weapons, but the newspapers hardly mentioned it. The AP wire appears to be the only coverage. Perhaps news organizations are taking their cue from the Justice Department, who's been quick to downplay their own bust, stressing that the "ragtag" group "had no apparent plans to use the weapons.""They just have a beef with

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The notion that government can be run like a corporation has been so successful, as evidenced by FEMA's work in New Orleans and Haliburton's work in Iraq, that it follows that companies start to assume the powers of governments.So why shouldn't Walmart have it's own intelligence service? This idea is completely consistent with the fact that Walmart's revenues exceed the GDP of several nations and

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If you play the audio from Alec Baldwin's voicemail tirade alongside the silent self-portraits of Seung Cho, you get a perfect match. It's a vivid depiction of the rage of men that explodes all over us day to day: the rage of manhood affronted.I'm sure many can relate to the extreme emotions around divorce and custody battles, but Baldwin's language reveals his own fragile ego that defines his

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  Having ushered in the post-spin era, talking points are the refreshing new way to package cynicism and callousness. When the president's "complete confidence" in the AG is exclaimed from all corners, people everywhere know it's the same complete confidence that Rummy enjoyed until Election Day. The tactic copied from Madison Avenue is obvious: repeat something enough times and people will

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I love Republicans. They are just so out of touch. And they're so in love with violent mayhem, death and destruction.But seriously, you 2nd amendment lovers, you NRA members and the pols who love them, give it up, please. Your government is destroying your freedom and civil liberties, but you can't use guns to stop it. Put down your weapons, and take your heads out of your asses.ps - Sorry to

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It's pretty inevitable that Alberto Gonzales will leave his job, but I want him to stay. Everyday that he's a part of this administration is a day this president looks like a swindling incompetent ass.The White House attempts to minimize scandal (withholding documents, changing explanations, claiming to accidentally delete emails) just prove to the American people that they are hiding some

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Why is it that Cosimo Cavallaro's "My Sweet Lord" (the chocolate Jesus sculpture recently ejected from a group show in New York) seems so unimportant as an issue of freedom of expression? Is it because the piece is so funny, in a way that Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" wasn't? Perhaps it's because the kerfuffle was ultimately good for the artist, who received several offers for the piece, in

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Political scandals have their own predictable arcs, like exploding projectiles or episodes of Law and Order. Also, they can be characterized by the Kubler-Ross schema for the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. It's all pretty self-evident, except that the role of depression is played by false-humility and the evincing of remorse, and acceptance comes in the

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Although it's been known for a long time, The New York Times reported again (thank you Jim Dwyer) that the NY Police Dept. engaged in domestic and international spying. If this surprises you, you're probably one of the many Americans who are unconcerned, trusting the authorities to recognize that you never do anything illegal, and so have no reason to be concerned.But maybe you don't realize that

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The Pentagon has released some sanitized versions of what are purported to be Khalid Sheik Mohammed's confessions. News sources are expressing skepticism over whether his many claims are to be trusted. Ummm, why does anyone have any confidence in the statement itself? After the rendition, the secret prisons, the torture, and the supremely opaque camp x-ray, does this statement really have any

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Can we all start getting alarmed now? Cut the delusion. Stop dismissing conspiracy theories. Nothing is theoretical about it. It is happening, and it has been happening for years.Just consider the simple question of who is watching the watchers, and who polices the police. What happens when the top officer of the law disavows, contorts, and abuses the law?The Justice Department retaliated

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  It's worth recalling that the first computer to break the teraflop barrier, in 1997, was a behemoth assembly of 9,326 Pentium pro chips that sucked down enough electricity to power a high-rise building. Because now there is a desktop version. Will this amount of computing power make it onto your desktop? For a moment, let's imagine that teraflop computing on the desktop would be an enabling

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Perplexed? I was too until I penetrated the inner logic of this argument against mandatory administration of the HPV vaccine. So here it goes: fear of contracting cervical cancer will suppress promiscuous urges and encourage moral and upright behavior, in the same way that AIDS and pregnancy have done in the past. This is just one more arrow in the quiver. Now I have a daughter, and it is my

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If you're tired of living in a country that has so much wrong with it, change the channel. During the Superbowl, CBS ran a commercial for its nightly news with Katie Couric that promised us what the Bush Administration has been asking for, but unable to produce: good news."We hear a lot about what's wrong with America, but there are so many examples of America's can-do spirit. Good people doing

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It's a special day when any form of the word VAGINA appears in a mainstream headline, as in Vaginal Births Cause Tiny Brain Hemorrhages.(I'd feel the same about PENIS, too).But articles about Baby Brain Bleeding may signal our arrival at a place even fear mongers are afraid to go:Natural Child Birth ... If You DARE!

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Why is it that torture is not usually allowed in coercing evidence from suspected criminals?And why does the Bush Administration want to allow hearsay and testimony obtained by torture now in their prosecutions of prisoners of Guantanamo?Simply put, they can't get convictions any other way. They cannot convict these men with normal evidence obtained through legal means, because they don't have

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The President speaks to a time long passed.From his speech of January 10, 2007:"... The consequences of failure are clear: Radical Islamic extremists would grow in strength and gain new recruits."[Already happened.]"They would be in a better position to topple moderate governments, create chaos in the region, and use oil revenues to fund their ambitions."[Already are.]"Iran would be emboldened in

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Again, the White House controls the language, and thus, they control the debate. From the people who brought us "Shock and Awe" and "Turning the Corner" we now have a new word to replace the phrases, "send more troops," "risk more lives," and "make more war." Surge is what we say now. But what should really concern us is just how quickly and easily this new name, this new term for going against

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Part One: "I'll have what he's having."Now that the FDA has determined meat from cloned animals is safe to eat, all that remains to be decided is the matter of labeling: to label or not to label? On the one hand, not labeling meat sourced from cloned animals could be seen as overly paternalistic, given that it confers the power to decide what's ok to eat to an agency of the federal government, a

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2007 will be the year America comes to terms with the fact that we have squandered our super powers. May the phrase "world's only superpower" find its way to the bin of failed hegemony.Military might has always been a definer of superpower status, and the current debacle in Iraq pulls the curtain down on that particular show. As we debate numbers of humans to deploy, the very capability of our

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I know we all want to feel good about Gerald Ford, especially now that he has died. And why not? He was a war hero, a reliable legislator, an athlete, an Ivy Leaguer, a steadying influence for a nervous and unsettled nation, a loyal and devoted husband, and by all accounts a really nice guy. Let's go ahead and feel good about him. But why does this preclude, seemingly, any widespread questioning

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The feat of knocking a golf ball into orbit got me reminiscing about a joke I tried out a few months ago. Nobody thought it was funny, and because I couldn't figure out why, I decided to provide a detailed explanation to go along with it. Here's what I came up with- JOKE: The first European lunar mission, SMART-1, ended today in a dazzling success when it crashed into the moon’s surface after a

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"What's the big deal?There was a campaign going on." That's how I read the president's testy answer during questioning at his post-election press conference. When asked "why did you tell us just last week that Rumsfeld would stay on?," his rambling reply included this: "the only way to answer that question and to get you on to another question was to give you that answer."The subtext, and in

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Classified information suddenly has nowhere to hide. It's out on the web, unchaperoned by any net nanny. Now the nation-state has become just one more player in the marketplace of ideas.The unimpeded flow of information, and its evil twin disinformation, comes with unforeseeable consequences. Imperfect security, indigestible lumps of data in the form of large electronic documents, compounded

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For many years I have wrestled with the central conundrum of identity theft: how can you steal something that can’t be given away?<?xml:namespace prefix = o />My attempt to limn an answer has brought me to advocate the legal construction of a new business entity. This entity would be established with the creation of a publicly-disclosed contract stipulating the details of a temporary transferal

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In another time, Micheal J. Fox is Terri Schiavo, Rush Limbaugh is Bill Frist, and Washington is where God does His work. So again we're shown the body politic. Only this time it's the left asking us to look at this body, interpret its movements, and take a position.The media have long been a branch of government, and nothing heals better than television, but these phenomena make way for new

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An old friend recently marshaled untold billions of electrons for the purpose of delivering this chain email:[begin inane block-headed chain email]<?xml:namespace prefix = o />Do you believe in God?NBC this morning had a poll on this question. …86% to keep the words, “In God We Trust” and “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.14% against.That is a pretty 'commanding' public response. …Therefore, I

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The recently announced layoff's at NBC Universal make it clear that TV content from now on, has got to come cheap. We've seen this coming for a while, but for people making television, we must stop talking about the future of media, and accept that the future has arrived.By "doing away with scripted programming" in prime time (8-11 pm), NBC sends a message to all of those who produce that old

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They have interactive television in the UK. Audiences send text messages (SMS) to support contestants, request music videos, express an opinion, or test their quiz smarts. This audience participation also allows a show's presenters to collect money from viewers directly, as opposed to relying solely on commercials.While multiple time zones make it harder for this trend to fly in the US, more than

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The most exquisite part of the Mark Foley/Dennis Hastert Sex Scandal is the way it has held the front page like a serial drama. Because House Speaker Hastert reacted with as much courage and honor as can be expected of the Republican leadership — he lied, denied it, tried to cover it up — the truth is dissolving his party like so much cotton candy on a lustful tongue.

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It doesn't get more cynical then Mark Foley playing the victim role.We've seen since 9/11 how victimhood has become extra special in our society. Before 9/11, the only similar status was that of those who exited Nazi death camps. But in the postmodern era, (not like when those "displaced persons" became "survivors") victim is a new sort of star. Whether you're voted off the cast of a realityTV

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The question of torture, an absurd discussion through most of the 20th century, has become a mainstream debate. The reason for this, like so many other reprehensible things, is that the morally hollow White House is framing the issue.Everyone seems to accept this frame. When Bush says Common Article 3 of the Geneva Accords contains vague wording, no one points out that those words are a legal

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There are many ways to make up truth. The most effective technique requires multiple sources that reference and reinforce each other. For this to work, disparate authorities make seemingly small contortions of fact, and then others refer to these aggregated authorities to make the case that a falsehood is true.This is what a Committee of the US House of Rep's was doing when the UN's Atomic Energy

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Five years on, it's time to remember the 9/11 victims. These memories have filled columns, airwaves, and moments of silence all this past week, but starting tomorrow, for the next 364 days we can return to forgetting.Remembering the victims of 9/11 is often a way to make a point, like when we disagree about art, history, or real estate. The victims also come in handy for sentencing convicted

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When two news items showed up next to each other on my Google News, I thought, 'hey, maybe these stories are related …' -duh.But, talk about a desperately slow news day, or the lame state of our passive journalism. I guess we're all tired of that same old Death-in-Iraq-Rising-Poverty-Corrupt-Government-Katrina-Anniversary story. These were Google's top stories:

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Maybe it's not so new, but if the US didn't invade Iraq, a new category of American would not be appearing on our streets. Vets of the Iraq war are more wounded than ever due to the advanced state of weapons (RPG's, IED's, etc.) and business-as-usual DoD. In a previous conflict, like Vietnam, Central America, or Somalia, there might have been some shrapnel in a leg, but in this war, that leg is

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There's something contradictory about outlawing a TV channel in America. Last week a guy was arrested for hooking up a satellite to receive Hezbollah's Al-Manar. Of course, we have laws against providing support to terrorist organizations, but outlawing the reception of a TV signal feels a lot like a limit on freedom of speech.The whole thing gets a bit Byzantine with the details. Hezbollah is

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I don't really mind Bill Clinton congratulating himself for the welfare reform of 1996 as long we recognize that Clinton's law only ended the Federal government's involvement with poverty. It didn't end poverty, as we can see from this PBS documentary, (Tuesday Night!).ps - Here's a nice Q and A from Newsday about the current state of American workers' wages.pps - Did you know that 1 in EIGHT

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I met a guy who told me about a member of his family he described as a "little crazy." He told me of all the shenanigans that seemed typical of a person suffering from bipolar disorder (or whatever – I'm no expert).Exasperated, he said through a heavy sigh that if the crazy guy would only do this or that, then the problem would be solved and the grief would end. But it seemed more likely to me

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If you are irrefutably exposed as a racist, some people feel an apology will make it all better. So I don't blame George Allen, Mel Gibson, Andrew Young, or any other public bigot for trying that. The truth is however, that these guys are racists. Their words were spoken sincerely and reflect their true nature.I am all for forgiveness, but apologies like the ones of these ignoramuses are so

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By living in, and becoming acclimated to a State of Fear, fear has become the imperative. To be without fear is to misunderstand the world, if you were to take the current president's view.In the past, to fear thy neighbor manifested itself in familiar ways: racism, homophobia, disdain for the poor. But what is new now is the overt allowance for the actions from that fear - often resulting in

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These are the sorts of headlines that make us feel good about the system, like the guilty are being punished, and justice is running her course:Ex-Contractor Guilty of Assaulting Detainee (Washington Post)and …Ex-C.I.A. Employee Guilty in Assault of Afghan (NYT)But the story of David Passaro is not so great news, but rather more myth.Even though he killed a man, Passaro was only convicted of

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A week after their arrests, we still have no charges for the allegedly flammable liquid-wielding Brits.In fact, the story is barely even news anymore. Today, the major papers buried it beyond page 10 (but it's tough to compete with a break in the JonBenet case).Security guards watched these guys for months, but when they finally arrest them for a plot akin to 9/11, they don't even have enough to

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Many reports of the cell phone terror hysteria explained that possessing pictures of a pretty bridge, and purchasing prepaid cell phones were reasons enough to require arrest. These descriptions of suspicious behavior leave something out, but we can all fill in the omission: the arrested men looked liked Arabs.So the crime here is the crime of looking. Looking at the Mackinac bridge while also

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Are you ready for the storm of terrorism hysteria? The big alleged British bust has yet to charge anybody with a crime, and now, in the midwest US, selling cell phones on the street is the occupation of terrorists.It simply feels very thin to me.

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Regarding the new alleged terrorist attack allegedly foiled by the British and/or American security forces: An important thing to keep in mind is that these same security forces, MI5 and Homeland Security, have consistently arrested innocent people, gone public with false charges, exaggerated threats and their own capabilities, bungled investigations, lied to the public, and even killed and

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Clearly the Bush Administration condones torture, and when they say they do not, they are lying. As Alberto Gonzales continues to convince congress to make Americans exempt from international law, (easy explainer here), it's clear that this is what they want to do. They think it is OK to do what the entire rest of the world has rejected, and has done so for 500 years.Because it should be obvious

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It should not be a crime to be poor, and it should not be a crime to feed the poor. So it's curious that Las Vegas and Orlando have passed laws against feeding the poor in public parks.The side in favor of these ordinances claim that 'mobile soup kitchens', render the park "impossible for others to use."It sounds to me like some folks more fortunate than others may get the heebie-jeebies when

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Extraordinary levels of brutality are what we see in the declassified files of B Company. The LATimes has printed (and Truthout has posted) horrifying and sad accounts of violence against Vietnamese civilians by American GI's. This archive of war files is a crystal ball that reflects our current quagmire in Iraq. We see the torture, orders to murder civilians, and the rape of young girls.Like the

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The military gang rape of a 14 year old girl in Mahmudiya, Iraq, had systemic causes. The NYTimes elaborated on this today. The defense strategy for the trials will be based on blaming the system.It's a desperate, but fascinating approach because, to the degree it's effective at all, we'll have a system that continually and automatically absolves itself. In other words, we'll have created a

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Movie stars have screwed up and been arrested before, but Mel Gibson's bust is different. This is no run-of-the-mill celebrity gossip. We can forgive and forget the alcoholic, sexual, and angry improprieties of our icons as indications that they are just like the rest of us (drunk, horny, and pissed). But Gibson is not like us, and we don't want him to be. He hates Jews.This used to be a

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A friend told me recently of a project about which he'd become discouraged. At the end of his crestfallen lament he said, "... but maybe I'm wrong."It was a curious moment in which self-doubt became a force to propel him.

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The US army continues to amaze. But amazement comes from having our expectations of an honorable military repeatedly dashed to bits. The latest is an order for soldiers to "kill all military-age males".Such an order, we are told by a military expert for the New York Times is "clearly unlawful."But what is truly remarkable, and very telling about our culture of obeisance is that despite the fact

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Human Rights Watch recently issued a gory report about Camp Nama, the sequel to Abu Ghraib. The report is chocked full of firsthand accounts by the torturing soldiers. It's a disgusting page turner and perfect beach reading.The story of Camp Nama, located at the Baghdad airport, was first reported by the New York Times on March 19, 2006, but the Charleston Gazette was the only other paper to run

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Last week, English authorities announced that the cops who killed an innocent man in the London subway will not be charged with any crime. On July 22, 2005, gunslinging officers of an anti-terrorism unit shot a Brazilian man 7 times in the head. The world was told the victim resembled a suicide bomber in all sorts of ways that turned out to be untrue.The men who carried out this execution could

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This image of Israeli children writing messages on missiles destined for Lebanon creates a distinct queasiness. At first, there is disgust, but it's laced with ambiguity. Are we to think that hatred is so rife in Israel that even children thirst for the blood of Arabs? Some say yes.For children to hate, it must be learned, so who has done the teaching here? Although a bunker-bound Israeli's blog

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Mitt Romney's Giuliani moment came when a slab of concrete killed a woman in a Boston tunnel. On 9/11, Rudy Giuliani showed that a tragedy is also an opportunity to create a hero out of one's self, a chance to become an adored legend, a moment that can erase all previous doubt.And Romney's doing his best sort of off-Broadway version. My favorite pictures are the ones where this presidential

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It's hard to get as excited about nuclear power as Jon Gertner gets in his New York Times Magazine cover story. Gertner makes the point many times over that the industry has a lot of new gizmos that make it worth investing in, and it's now completely safe (but wait, didn't they say that before T.M.I. and before Chernobyl too?).In the past 30 years, there hasn't been a single nuclear power plant

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With every penny pinched, there is increased risk. And with a debacle like Boston's Big Dig, somebody finally died. I'm sure several others profited in some way, too, because why else would someone choose to use substandard concrete, for example?These falling ceiling panels seem to be more about epoxy on screws, but really, how does a construction project take twice the projected time to complete

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Steven Green, the Army private who allegedly raped a 14 year old Iraqi girl and then killed her and her family, represents a near perfect breakdown of a system. A fundamental concept of General Systems Theory is the notion that elements of the world relate to each other and affect each other. Basically, there are consequences to decisions, actions, and natural phenomena. Some consequences are

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The theory that Bush's claim to respect the Geneva Conventions is completely meaningless, is proven no less then 24 hour later by the White House itself, pursuing congressional measures to make subverting the Geneva Conventions "legal," as an order of the legislature.As the NYTimes says, "The court left it to Congress to decide what kind of trials to set up for detainees and what protections they

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It doesn't really matter that the Pentagon has decided to set a policy that article 3 of the Geneva Conventions applies to all prisoners held by the military. It also doesn't matter whether this is, or is not, a change in policy for the Bush Administration. (The White House says there is no policy change, even though Bush said in a February 2002 that “Common article III of Geneva does not apply

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It's quite sad to see a man create tragedy to save what he thinks is the most important thing in life - his property. According to the NYTimes, Nicholas Bartha blew up his townhouse, and almost himself, yesterday because "he wanted nothing more than to remain in that house."Purchasing the house, "the love of his life," was "validation, proof of success". The sad part is that this man's wife and

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When three prisoners of Guantanamo killed themselves last month, the commanding officer there accused the men of committing asymmetrical warfare on America by taking their own lives. He said the suiciders had no respect for human life.The notion that these men coordinated their suicides is now referred to as a "plot". Basic rights, like attorney-client privilege, must now be suspended, as sealed

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What I can't figure out is why the US government is holding these men at Gitmo, when it seems so clear to everyone else that these interrogators, these prison guards, defense dept. torturers, they don't know what they are doing? Bush talks in press conferences about these "darn bad" men but they don't get any convictions, or useful information out of what the are doing to these men. So it's just

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Tiny drops of horror. At what point do we decide we are just too wet, or that the constant drip is actually a problem?Another story today of a man taken to a secret prison to be tortured by the CIA. Like so many others, he was released without charges after 16 months.Why is this right?Why is it OK?Why does no one seem to care? To care amounts to nothing much anyway. It's easy and required to care

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An artist told me that she was bothered by 'consumer culture', and that was what she wanted to paint - the bother. What about consumer culture bothers you so much, I asked. She paused. She began to explain but stopped several times. It occurred to us both that the bother was something not so well understood. Articulation requires specificity. Do the general terms by which we describe the world

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I saw a guy recently become invalidated by his own words. This guy has a habit of saying things he later can't remember saying. It is denial for convenience and raises the question of whether there is any value ever to saying things we may later feel the need to deny. In the case of my friend, nothing he says comes without the question of it being cancelled later. Shakey credibility is a

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Lately there are questions. So many. With every notion one can wonder.Paper or plastic?Boy or girl?Bad or good?Oral or anal?Jail or probation?To give or to get?Forgive or forget?Stay or Go?

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