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July 3rd, 2008
 | 11:19 am - some days are easier than others
If you need to get an abortion and you're in South Dakota, be prepared for your doctor to lie to you -- no thanks to a new law that intrusively violates the doctor's freedom of speech and the doctor-patient relationship.
Slate: Keeping tabs on Obama's shift toward the center. Consider also that Obama's advisor Greg Craig is apparently passing his boss incorrect information on FISA, which has no expiration date and so doesn't need to be replaced by the bill that lets telecoms and lawbreaking elected officials off the hook.
Guardian UK: Destroying Hillary Clinton, part two.
Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded (but he could put up a hand and have them stop, and nobody else can do that) and concludes: Yes, it's torture. Congratulations, Mr. Hitchens, on requiring personal experience to force you to conclude what any reasonably thoughtful and compassionate person would have understood from the moment the procedure was first described. More here.
Is military service required for a president? Does it alone qualify someone to be president? Gen. Wesley Clark said no, and the rightwing branches of the media were wrongly and ahistorically all over him. (Take a look at the list of past presidents: how many were not in the military? A lot.) In 2003, McCain said no, it wasn't required and didn't qualify someone to be president (yes, there are quotes.) Perhaps McCain can't remember what he said then, because when he's asked that question now he becomes very angry and can't answer it. Digby has more:
I actually think that Wes Clark completely threw McCain off with this. The Villagers are having their little hissy fit, but this has exposed that McCain believes in his own divine right to the Presidency based entirely on his suffering and his wounds (which he's ever so "reluctant" to talk about, he mentioned in the same interview. Yeah, right.) Clark touched a nerve here by questioning the assumption that McCain's biography can stand in for his judgment or policy prescriptions. He deflated McCain's entire rationale for his candidacy.
Karl Rove just wanted some kind of 'faith-based thing' to get political points with believers. That's how cynically the Administration treated the violation of the separation of church and state.
If you're going to repair computers in Texas, you will need a private investigator's license. No joke. Yep. Here's the law.
A new way of producing ethanol from sugar cane has water as a byproduct. Since other methods require water, this has a lot of promise.
Can we end hidden oil subsidies?
Collecting water with fog and dew collectors. Alice-through-the-looking-glass chess set with vanishing chessmen. Tardis sheds. Darning clothes as an art form.
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| Date: | July 3rd, 2008 06:18 pm (UTC) |
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In re Hitchens: On the one hand "Experience is a hard teacher, but a fool will learn from no other", and on the other, having a good writer who's usually on the other side do a vivid "yes it's torture" description is a little extra push in the right direction.
Yes. I will admit, Hitchins does get credit from me for at least having the curiosity and -- for once -- the intellectual rigor to do it himself. And to honestly write up the results. |
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