Unqualified Offerings

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FAIL.
Via the Agitator.

By Thoreau
I’m going to be in Vancouver for a conference next week, arriving Sunday afternoon and leaving Thursday morning.  The conference is in the downtown area, and I won’t have a rental car, so my options are somewhat limited.  However, I’ll have Sunday afternoon and perhaps an evening or two to do some looking around.  [...]

By Thoreau
Walnuts prevent breast cancer in mice, according to a new study.  See, I kept telling everyone that baklava is a health food, but they wouldn’t believe me.  Well, here’s the evidence!
This is the most important piece of science since the discovery of antioxidants in chocolate.  So get your mother some chocolate-covered walnuts for Mother’s [...]

By Thoreau
The details of this article are hazier than the lead-in suggests, but it looks like the people who “just gave orders” (as opposed to the people who “just followed orders”) might not be out of the woods yet, as far as prosecution goes.
If Obama prosecutes the officials who authorized torture, I will personally knock [...]

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Via Radley, the dots now officially connect:
“While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not being successful in establishing [...]