[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Soaking In It (Shakesville)
- I am left breathless with astonishment that anyone, anywhere, with any sense of decency, could categorize [redacted redacted redacted] as "merely kinky," …
And not only did Janet Malcolm make this stunning claim, but the proof-readers and editors and everyone who saw this piece before it went into print in the pages of The New Yorker all apparently felt it was totally appropriate for publication.
Yikes.
- Killing The Mentally Ill for being "non-complliant" (Hullabaloo – Digby)
- I'm afraid that any American with a heart condition, epilepsy or mental illness of any kind is going to have to start wearing a big sign saying "please don't tase me, it will probably kill me," so that police won't use their "alternative" to deadly force on you. (If you don't have health care or don't know if you have a heart condition, well, just drop to the ground and submit yourself to police every time you see one, just in case.)
These things are killing a lot of people. If tasers were a drug or a food additive they would have been taken off the market a long time ago with this track record.
- BP’s Permission Not Needed for Feds to Monitor Spill Effects
- OK, this is just bullpucky. The government is doing all sorts of handwringing about how it can’t force BP to disclose information about what’s actually going on in the gulf.
- Dennis Kucinich Says Targeting US Citizens Should Be Illegal
- Of course, why anyone would need to introduce legislation to prohibit the killing of US citizens with no due process, I don’t know. Isn’t there already a piece of paper that prohibits such things?
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