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Human Statues of Liberty are Huddled but Happy to Be Free

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

NYTimes.com

Playing the Statue of Liberty for eight hours a day, sweating underneath those robes in the glaring sun, makes for classic immigrant labor. It’s hot in there, it’s physical work, and sometimes, literally, they get pushed around, shoved off the pedestal by a mean-spirited joker or a strong wind.

But

Believe Me, It’s Torture

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

vanityfair.com

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Panel Questions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Nah, the war wasn’t about oil….NYTimes.com

Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that ran counter to American policy and undercut Iraq’s central government, a Congressional committee

Tree of Learning

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I guess learning is evil…or at least looks like pure evil.