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at the risk of spreading around the bad cheer, i'm cross-posting a video i found on atthesametime's journal of christopher hitchens being (voluntarily) waterboarded.

* the video is HERE.

* hitchens' article about the experience is HERE.

obviously, this is disturbing stuff, so consider yourself warned ( Read more... )

(this entire post is kind of a re-tread of a conversation in olamina's comment threads...)
the optimistic narrative of the 2008 election, i suppose, has been about "moving past" race and gender. the official dialogue has been an awkward attempt at cultural invisibility, with the clinton and obama campaigns both trying to appear as un-controversial as ( Read more... )

the weird thing about adding lj feeds is that there's still a comment option. like, you could post a comment... but who's gonna receive it? i mean, why bother, right?

a while back, i added the bbc world news feed, figuring i'd trick myself into following current events more rigorously by sneaking them onto my friends page. it's had mixed results ( Read more... )

hello. i'm still here.

i was gonna post ten good things tonight, but instead i nit-picked a job application LITERALLY all friggin' night long. UGH. in the realm of things i hate, editing cover letters ranks somewhere between grading student papers (thank god those days are gone!) and being punched in the crotch repeatedly. in my experience, the ( Read more... )

have you seen the mika brzezinski thing yet? it's pretty great... brzezinski is a panelist on some MSNBC show called morning joe, which is also primarily a vehicle for conservative pundit joe scarborough. a couple of days ago-- on air-- she suddenly refused to cover paris hilton for the morning's top story, choosing instead to focus on senator dick ( Read more... )

a couple of weeks back, I caught paul wolfowitz on charlie rose. officially, he was there to discuss his time as president of the world bank-- focusing on what he was trying to accomplish in africa... and, inevitably, dodging questions about making his own girlfriend senior communications officer during his time there ( Read more... )

well, the recent "troop surge" hasn't chilled out the iraqi insurgency very effectively, and u.s. soldiers are looking at longer tours in the middle east, but NEVER FEAR!!! because the bush administration is considering the appointment of a WAR CZAR to oversee operations in iraq and afghanistan, and to help clean up the mess ( Read more... )

oh livejournal, i've missed you...

so, it's been a pretty busy month. i was working six shifts a week for a while there, and then got wrapped up in a very involved painting that took about 600 times longer than i expected. it's a lot bigger than the last few (3 foot square), but the imagery within is about the same size. so it was like making ( Read more... )

i'm still here. i've been working six days a week, as well as trying to finish some paintings for something i'm gonna apply to (and yes, images, really seriously are on the way)... anyway, i kinda wanted to return to my old posty ways with an uplifting ten good things (which will be along later in the week of course... my fun, week-long vacation ( Read more... )