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Daily Archives: January 11th, 2008

Court rules torture okay

Friday, January 11, 2008

McClatchy reports (In voiding suit, appellate court says torture is to be expected): A federal appeals court Friday threw out a suit by four British Muslims who allege that they were tortured and subjected to religious abuse in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a ruling that exonerated 11 present and former senior […]

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What’s up with wassup?

Friday, January 11, 2008

Any WordPress experts out there? I was using a plug in called Wassup to keep track of readership. I liked it because my daily hits increased from the numbers reported by the last plug in I used, which also crapped out for some reason. I mean, who cares if the numbers are real, so long […]

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Friday night music is back

Friday, January 11, 2008

I think it’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted music. I honestly can’t keep track. This week, two of Simon and Garfunkel’s best. The inevitable Bridge Over Troubled Water. What can I say, it’s a great song. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFEnoITiWE[/youtube] America [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ULw6tDey0[/youtube]

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A Bit more on the Bradley effect

Friday, January 11, 2008

A few days ago I speculated that the surprise in New Hampshire might have been, in whole or in part, a result of the Bradley effect. Named after former LA Mayor Tom Bradley, who lost a race for California governor despite polls predicting victory, the term refers to the tendency of white voters to lie […]

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Yet another thing no one could anticipate

Friday, January 11, 2008

Wouldn’t you think PR people would avoid the “Nobody anticipated…” formulation made famous by Condi Rice about terrorists and echoed by Bush about Katrina? Apparently not, as Floyd Norris reports in today’s New York Times (Banks Plead They Can’t Follow Rules) : “No one anticipated a day when potentially hundreds of thousands of residential mortgage […]

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Priorities

Friday, January 11, 2008

Seems like the telecoms have a good handle on their legal rights when their pocketbooks are involved: Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureaus repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBIs […]

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