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Daily Archives: June 6th, 2010

Is she trying to tell me something?

Sent to me by my sister (should get bigger if you click on it):

Your tax dollars at work.

Must avoid Nazi comparisons. Bush-era CIA medical personnel conducted experiments on detainees in CIA custody to provide legal cover for torture as well as to justify and shape future torture techniques, a just-released report from the Physicians for Human Rights alleges. “The CIA appears to have broken all accepted legal and ethical standards put in […]

Weekend events

Yesterday I was attending reunion activities at Swarthmore, my wife’s alma mater. She was there in the halcyon days of the sixties. Just after lunch the class met with a retiring philosophy professor, who had over the years, transformed from a fire breathing SDS advising radical to a far more conservative and clearly conflicted individual. […]