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Dim Bullets in a Dark Tunnel

The new quagmire: Seven questions for Barack Obama on Afghanistan. With hindsight of Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam memoirs and penned by retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. Greenwald calls Jane Harman a bunch of names although strangely, hypocrite isn’t one of them. Jeff Stein delves further into the mess. Socialist Andre Damon pretty cynical about everything. Reese [...]

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Torture Chuckles

Nooners! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c We Don’t Torture thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Update: Agree with Josh and Sullivan … Let’s call Cheney’s bluff.

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Torture Through the Centuries; The Concise Wingnut

Walk on the ice cubes, not the hot coals Want to know more about torture? I know that you do. Condi apparently discussed whether detainees should be beat, slapped, sleep-deprived, water-boarded, all the above. McCain’s own accounting is that he broke and falsely admitted to war crimes to make it stop. And yet he has [...]

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Giant lobster chomps on little people in the subway

Tom Otterness Rocks 8th Ave.For those who have never been there, here’s more info. What’s Tom up to now? I watched Under the Volcano. While Albert Finney rocks this sort of drinking and drugs kamikaze movie (e.g. The Dresser, Leaving Las Vegas, Hurly Burly, Boogie Nights, Requiem for a Dream), I’m tired of them. The [...]

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