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The Washington Post has obtained the statements provided by detainees from Abu Ghraib who were asked to describe in their own words what happened to them in Tier 1A at the prison. The other side of the pictures we’ve seen is that the detainees were savagely beaten if they balked at being humiliated and [...]

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Respectful of Otters describes a social program that just works today. Unsurprisingly, despite its low cost and absurdly high effectiveness at actually saving money (and lives), it’s often a political target.

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The Sacramento Bee has a depressing interview with a Marine who has returned from Iraq. It really drives home the point that any soldier who fights in a war is a victim of it.

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So on May 11, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a column with the headline, “For Iraqis to Win, the U.S. Must Lose.” The point was pretty basic — the people who eventually end up with power are not going to be people who are seen as US stooges. Going into the war, [...]

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The Washington Post runs an editorial today that makes the point I was trying to make yesterday, which is that responsibility for the torture (and murder) of detainees goes straight to the top, based strictly on the evidence that we now know to be fact. The Denver Post has a widely linked story today that [...]

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I don’t know how realistic the talk of reinstitution of the draft is, but I do find it a bit disturbing that twice in the past few weeks I’ve gotten spam encouraging me to jion the National Guard. The most recent spam was sent to the contact address for a domain name that I have [...]

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Change for America reports that Kerry’s latest campaign theme is taken from the title of a poem by Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again. I have to admit that when I saw it, it made me think of an episode of The West Wing when the staff adopted the slogan “Let Barlet be Bartlet.” [...]

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One problem in the world of big and growing scandals is that as allegations and revelations spill out, it’s hard to keep track of which facts are actually in dispute. On one hand, this makes it easy for the people with grudges to make outrageous claims, but on the other side, it makes it possible [...]

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If you like the Daily Show, you’ll love the commencement speech Jon Stewart gave this year at his alma mater, William & Mary.

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If you’re considering using JBoss for a project, you may want to consider the fact that the company encourages its employees to post at The Server Side (and probably on other sites) anonymously, trashing their competitors and critics and boosting the company. As it turns out, the comments were posted “anonymously” rather than anonymously, and [...]

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