just as there is no one thing we need, there is no one thing we are. except, perhaps, for that emptiest and (hence) weightiest of terms: human.

it amazes me how easily people still throw around assertions like "women [this]" and "men [that]." you'd think by now you'd have to be at least a bit subtler, to be included in polite conversation. at ( Read more... )

so not just one but both of our illustrious senators voted to allow torture. to allow not only crazy terrorist foreigners to be tortured--oh, no, that wouldn't do. to allow anyone to be tortured. anyone our illustrious president decides might be dangerous. and by what criteria might he decide? "judgments and instincts and evaluations and ( Read more... )