by Jonathan Wallace
Huge
The sad thirty-year life of the World Trade towers seems a human folly of Biblical proportions.
Falling Flights and
Meteorites
Life is a braid of beauty and horror.
A Reply to Wallace by Peter Bearse Life is sacred. This is the axiom to be put first, as truth lived. |
by Seth Finkelstein Alan Dershowitz shows a touching professorial concern with the due process of torture. |
What the Terms Mean By Mike McGlothlin One of the difficulties in understanding the war properly is that, as in any specialized area, the defense establishment has its own peculiar and special language consisting of jargon and acronyms. |
by Bennett Haselton It's the example that almost everyone brings up when talking about the inaccuracies of blocking software. |
by Farhad Mafie A star of the movie is a real-life assassin and terrorist. |
by Matthew Hogan Ethnic profiling is actually not always a bad thing when done right and sensibly. But it usually isn't. Mostly it is done out of ignorance, and carried out in a manner that reeks of bigotry. |
by Evan Maloney To disfigure a moment in history in order to satisfy ephemeral political concerns is an insult to the firefighters who raised the flag. |
by Tom Crumpacker Why does our government want to prevent us from seeing and learning about what is happening in Cuba? |
by Francois Fouche Whomsoever dare tread the same path as he did may also expect to end up on the Cross. |
The defend-in-place strategy was the wrong strategy at the World Trade Center. Many of those who ignored the directions to "stay where you are" are alive today because they self-evacuated. |
Israel bombed the Voice of Palestine radio station in December. |
Oh! thats right, you are a goddamned attorney, I forgot, the basic rules of human decency dont apply to you. |
I would love this book even if
my brother Joe hadn't written it....
Its a funny and nuanced children's story about a kid who believes
he's too big and noisy, and a revelation that comes when he visits
Africa with his parents.
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