They’re called “prairie palaces” around here. The early adapters took their profits from ocean view tract homes in SoCal, and in the fields of Colorado, parlayed them into conspicuous, 4,000 square foot symbols of their success. Like so many other dreams around the country, this particular palace has fallen on hard times. Times such as these can produce bitterness at …
Now, this is what really annoys me about scientists. Their punctiliousness makes in damned near impossible for them to think creatively about anything. They all just assume that the only kind of life the universe is capable of harboring has to be in the same fucking temperature range as our little ball of mud, because . . . well, just because.
Like most nations, the United States continues to conduct espionage against other nations, and we use clandestine spies employed by the CIA to get the information we think we need to keep us safe.
Hugh Francis Redmond was just such a fellow.
Judge Bybee wearing missing part of his judge’s robe The NY Times has an editorial today calling for the impeachment of Judge Jay “Dungeon Master” ByBee: To read the four newly released memos on prisoner interrogation written by George W. Bush’s Justice Department is to take a journey into depravity. Their language is the precise bureaucratese favored by dungeon masters …
Bush judge: sharing a cell box with an insect (or a giant scorpion) is not torture. (Click it.) Glenzilla on the content of the just released Torture Memos: Just consider parts of this August 1, 2002 Memo (.pdf) by then OLC official (and now-federal judge) Jay Bybee, authorizing the following techniques for Abu Zubaydah, who was shot three times during …
