Good and Evil

I read about the famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment in college just a few years after it took place. Even then (soooo many years ago!) it was understood to be …

On condition of anonymity…

an honest diplomatic response to Bush’s phony “climate summit”: A senior European diplomat attending the conference, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meeting confirmed European suspicions that it had …

Move On wordplay

Tristero at Digby’s place looks today at “the problem of modern rhetoric” within the Right/Left political debate, prompted by the supposedly right-wing answer to MoveOn.org. MoveOn’s Eli Parisher makes the …

Iraq's new Saddam

It’s disgusting what these chickenhawks will do just to be able to say they are “winning”. Winning what the fuck, you are not supposed to ask (and so the corporate …