Master’s Degree: Teaching Torture as a Western Value
In a recent London Review of Books article detailing the abysmal horrors of Egypt's prison system -- a multi-circled hell with visible and invisible layers, all of them wretched, some…
Inspection- Big Brother and The Hound: 2015
I've been sidelined for a while due to an operation: unable to walk, or move much. So, TV and internet it is. I keep waking up, after sleeping in…
Long Story Short: Snowed Under
Written by Mart Allen I am snowed under, and it is not because of snow. It is with an embarrassment of riches if you could call them that. I am…
Dripping cold
After weeks of bitter cold and blasting arctic winds, it may have been exhaustion or general inattentiveness, but sometime last night I neglected to make sure all the faucets were…
Fox News Host Embarrassed By Fact Checkers After Blaming Obama for Bush Mistake
Recently, Fox News' Jeanine Pirro tried to claim that President Obama is responsible for the leader of the I.S.I.S., Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, being free. Pirro said, "The head of…