An open letter to Karen Hughes on torture – Salon.com :
Torture is state-sanctioned deviant behavior. It is degrading, arbitrary, cruel and illegal. As all responsible intelligence officers know, torture is the least productive technique of all, and torture yields inherently tainted information. Torture destroys the humanity of more than those tortured. It destroys the souls of those performing…
I could write about travel. I could tell amusing anecdotes. I could tell you where this entry is going, if only I knew.
At the moment I know about colds. Adam’s nose looks more like a Superfund site than a piece of harmless human anatomy. Beth thinks it’s really cool that she’s loosing her voice. I’m on the brink of a critical shortage of Motrin.
I’m wondering how much better my…
Those are the kind of signs I don’t like too much… but who does? (Sometimes I think I just sit here and type shit, just for the sake of typing. Although, I’m getting to like this funky iMac keyboard, so there are worse things I could be doing that typing crap for the sake of typing.)
Dad’s making the drive to Chattahoochee for the first time this weekend. I thought I might go, but Cheryl…
It’s very early, but you have to like the fact that the Lightning have started 3-0 without the services of their best defenseman.
Well, I suppose if you’re not a hockey fan, or if you are a hockey fan but not a Lightning fan, then you don’t HAVE to like it; but you’re free to like it if you want to. With the Rays season over, the Bucs crashing back to Earth last week, and the Gators…
A few months ago there were some toy recalls. You might have heard about them in the news. Several of Adams toys were on the recall lists, including a Thomas (the tank engine) toy train. We followed the instructions on the manufacturer’s web site, mailed it back to them (at our expense… to be reimbursed later), and a few weeks later we received a replacement. They even threw in a bonus train…
Here’s an excerpt from an article I read while convalescing this morning:
Death of environmentalism, saving the planet, nature, science, love – Salon.com
I found some of the article interesting, discussing the overzealousness of some environmentalists, and seeming to suggest that we can go too far on both sides of the climate change debate. I buy this argument, to a point. Nature is never…
Last night my camera (an old Olympus C-2100 Ultra-Zoom) went kaput. I suspect there’s a little motor that’s responsible for moving the lenses to adjust focus, and it’s failed… as neither the auto, nor the manual focus work. (Unlike an SLR, the “manual” focus is still electronic – pressing buttons rather than twisting a ring on the lens.)
I mentioned this in a post yesterday, but I…
I’m beginning to suspect my headaches aren’t sinus related. It’s my doctor’s fault, really. She planted a seed in my head last week when she said, “I think your headaches may be caused by something other than sinusitis.”
I’m pretty quick, eh?
And yet, when Singulair didn’t work she prescribed another round of steroids. What do both of those drugs have in common? If you guessed…
Maureen Dowd, putting a few words in Clarence’s mouth…
I Did Do It – New York Times:
Because Poppy Bush put me on the Supreme Court after I’d been a judge for only a year, I’ll always wonder if I got the job just because of my race. I want to spare other blacks that kind of worry. That’s why I pulled the ladder up after myself — so that my brothers and sisters would have the peace…