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Entries from November 2005

Waterboarding

November 30th, 2005 · 5 Comments

This ABC News story on CIA interrogation tactics is old news by now, but there was one section I’d meant to comment on: Water Boarding: The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner’s face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, […]

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Tags: War

Kriston Gets Institutionalized

November 29th, 2005 · Comments Off on Kriston Gets Institutionalized

I know it’s hard to believe, dear readers, but there are a couple of regrettable gaping lacunae in my education—chief among them, alas, visual art. Fortunately, I can outsource my responsibility for knowing exactly why Jed Perl is totally fucking wrong to sharp folk like fellow U Street denizen Kriston Capps. And you know he […]

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Tags: Art & Culture

Mash-Up of the Week

November 25th, 2005 · 2 Comments

If you like more than your potatoes mashed up on a Thanksgiving weekend, check out this deft blend by Party Dan of Cake’s “Never There” and Gorillaz’s “Feel Good Inc.”

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Tags: Art & Culture

Liberal Media Deviously Uses Different Names for Different Things

November 23rd, 2005 · 3 Comments

Over at The Corner, John J. Miller says about this story: One of the most interesting things about the abortion pill story is that it actually uses the term “abortion pill” — as opposed to “emergency contraception” or somesuch. I haven’t done a careful analysis of this, but I suspect that the media often doesn’t […]

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Tags: Science

I Thought You Were My Boyfriend

November 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment

You know how sometimes you’ll pick up an album (or even two) from some artist, give it a couple listens, and then forget about it for months—even years? And then, on a whim, you decide to give it another listen and can’t believe you didn’t instantly recognize how brilliant it was when you first heard […]

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Tags: Art & Culture

Famous Ex Watch

November 22nd, 2005 · 3 Comments

When Jarah Euston started her online alt-weekly Web zine Fresno Famous, she chose for the banner a mural bearing this quote: I’m not going to be famous I won’t get to be a rock star I am going to be stuck on the payroll Doing work that doesn’t interest me For a very long time […]

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Tags: Random Cool Link

New at Reason

November 18th, 2005 · Comments Off on New at Reason

I’ve got a new Web piece on torture and habeas corpus up at the Reason site.

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Tags: Self Promotion

Count Your Clauses

November 18th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Over at Hit and Run, my colleague Jacob Sullum links to this story about dueling ads in the fight over Samuel Alito. This statement from a spokesman for the aggressively secular People for the American Way caught my eye: As for the commercial attacking his group, Mr. Minceberg said it falsely charged that People for […]

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Tags: Law

No Llamen Redux

November 17th, 2005 · Comments Off on No Llamen Redux

It looks like the FTC is already aware of the problem of Spanish-language telemarketers ignoring the Do Not Call list: They’ve apparently launched a crackdown, according to a press release from last month.

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Tags: Law

Found Art

November 16th, 2005 · Comments Off on Found Art

Overheard in New York collects snippets of witty, funny, or otherwise interesting exchanges that readers… well, overheard in New York. One of the contributors is Michael Malice, who I knew slightly back when I lived in Manhattan.

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Tags: Random Cool Link