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Don’t there seem to be very few details on Deborah Palfrey’s death to go with the confident pronouncements that she did it herself?

By Thoreau
What’s with you people? I blog about the biophysics of blood and mention a blog called “Biocurious” and nobody shows up to comment on the science or at least say something snarky about “Biocurious.” But we can get 36 posts and counting over a crazy minister.
Fine. I can play that game. [...]

Let’s zoom in on one passage of the Scalia interview quoted below, shall we?
"If someone’s in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized by a law enforcement person, if you listen to the expression ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ doesn’t that apply?" Stahl asks.
"No, No," Scalia replies. [...]

Antonin Scalia flouts federalism on 60 Minutes by not just defending torture but practicing it, the latter clearly an executive function:
The justice has been explaining his positions publicly more and more, and even delving into some thorny issues, like torture.
“I don’t like torture,” Scalia says. “Although defining it is going to be a nice trick. [...]