Torture

I’ve been away from posting for awhile, so I thought I’d start with something light – like torture. Let me just say right off the top that I will forever despise the Bush administration for making my country into a nation that tortures. This is one of the main things that made me embrace being […]

Risk and terrorism

As a follow-up to my previous post, it’s important to keep in mind what the real threats are to your life and limb. Check out this article from Reason. And, check this out from the Peoria Journal Star. I had no idea that flooding was the most deadly kind of weather.

This is why the Bush administration had to go

The Bush administration turned out to be the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time, and we, our Constitution, and people across the world suffered for it. Now, thanks to some newly released legal memos, we can see that it was as bad as we actually thought. In my (very few) sympathetic […]