Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
If we’re ever going to defang 9/11, it will be because people just roll their eyes when it is invoked.  And that will only happen if we examine and recall how stupid it made us.  I’ve ranted enough about the evil, let’s just talk about the stupid.
I remember when the Columbia space shuttle broke [...]

By Thoreau
Let us recall the lawsuit filed against a CIA contractor by torture victims.  The victims contend that the contractor knew that it was flying people around to be tortured.  The Bush administration invoked the state secrets doctrine to contend that this case should not go forward.  The Obama administration had the opportunity to either [...]

By Thoreau
It’s September 11 again.  Happens every year.  It’s the anniversary of a day on which a lot of people died.  A lot of people die for all sorts of reasons every day, but this particular death anniversary is used to manipulate us and maintain the fear and jingoism.  So, in recognition of the way [...]