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Total Torture Tutorial
Mixing up your OLC memos? Can’t keep your enhanced interrogations straight? Foreign Policy, which not too long ago implemented a generally improved web redesign, has this very useful (and terrifying) timeline of torture.
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Jason Roberts: A Poem I Love
Donald Justice, “Men At Forty” Dear sweet god. This is a poem that renders an entire genre of novels unnecessary. What the hell is it that every meditation-on-middle-age is saying, if not this?
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Poetry is good for your face, but you need to make sure you rub it all the way in. Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog, is having some problems with commenters. I wonder why we don’t? Steven Fama has a few…
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You’ve Got To Have Friends
Forget the herbal supplements, the diets, the hyperbaric oxygen chambers–a big circle of friends has a huge effect on your long-term health.
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As Long As There Isn’t a Movie Sequel
1991 was an eventful year–the Soviet Union collapsed, our Iraq adventure began, Scott Norwood’s kick went wide right, Magic Johnson tested positive for HIV, Jeffrey Dahmer and Mike Tyson were arrested on the same day (though for different crimes), and…
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Auto-tune The News
Pirates, drugs, gay marriage. For realz. See also Nashville Debate in Song and Dance.
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Another Bust for the Bush War
According to the New York Times, Americans posing as contractors allegedly stole $40 million in Iraqi fuel and sold it on the black market. “The operation described in the indictment contained elements of an international crime thriller and a Cheech…
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Tunneling to the Center of the Earth
A new and heralded collection of short stories digs to the heart of obsession, isolation, and strangeness.