Category: 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
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30 Disgusting Facts from the CIA Torture Report
It didn’t work. They covered it up. It’ll happen again.
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Dan Savage on Weiner
“And here’s the inevitable “professional help” question: Is he going to seek professional help. Because horniness is an illness. Wiener is being asked to apologize to Andrew Brietbart… and he does. Ugh. A reporter asks if Weiner was drinking or using drugs—if he has a problem—because only a man who has a drinking problem or a […]
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The Empty Pulpit
“This has been the signature failure of the Obama administration. Instead of standing on principle, Obama’s modus operandi has been to accede before the battle has really been joined. We have seen this repeatedly in the major issues of his presidency: the emasculation of the so-called “stimulus package”; the abandonment of the health care public […]
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American Shame
Comparing unemployment, income inequality, democracy, food supply, life expectancy, prison population and student performance. New York Times
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School-Issued Laptops Photographed Kids As They Slept, Monitored IMs and Browser History
The lawsuit is on: The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district. More than once, […]