Yesterday I wrote a very long and detailed post on the Plame leak situation. It had quotations and it had links. It had the whole history, the timeline, and it had several compelling points. Just as I was about to publish it, a site in another window crashed my browser. Bummer. I have really got to start writing these things offline. I’m just too disheartened to reconstruct the whole blasted thing. Since you can easily look up everything to do…
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. The depth and…
The United States has, until now, been a (if not "the") world leader in scientific research and the development of technologies. This has been the backbone of public policies that navigate reality, and it has brought us our highish standard of living and our economy of relative priviledge. But I think we’re on the way out of that role. When ideologies replace knowledge, it is always the people who pay. Certain fundamentalist groups, suspicious of all intellectuals, "eggheads," and independent…
Torture is a contradiction of our historical national values. In addition, we undermine our national security and are in violation of our own laws when we allow it. Informants will not come forward if they cannot trust us not to treat them fairly under international law. We do not get accurate information with torture – ample historical precedent teaches us that those who are tortured will say anything to make it stop. After a couple of years of imprisonment, what…
Call to Action – Release CIA Report on 9/11 – Click here to sign at WorkingforChange.com: “What is the Bush administration afraid of? Perhaps it is the CIA inspector general’s report on 9/11, completed in June of this year. The CIA will not even release it to the House intelligence committee which requested the study two years ago. When it comes to the Bush administration and accountability, the buck doesn’t stop until at least after the upcoming election, it appears….