Glenn Greenwald responds to a letter from the absurdly mis-named Accuracy in Media.
It's worth a read.
Author Archives: Sheila
On Aging……
From a friend of mine:
“I spent the weekend w/ friends of my age (actually, a bit younger) and we kept not remembering words and names. Finally, I said: ‘It takes a village to finish a sentence.'”
If truer words were ever spoken, I don’t remember them!
Bottled Water
• The energy used each year making the bottles needed to meet the demand for bottled water in the United States is equivalent to more than 17 million barrels of oil. That’s enough to fuel over 1 million cars for a year.
I’ve always liked David Souter…
so this simply reinforces my pre-existing impression of him.
From page 177 of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin:
Finding Speaks Volumes about "Values"
According to a new study from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, “those who attend church at least weekly are more prone to say that torture is justifiable. Suffice it to say that, in the eyes of those who support the use of torture, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and Abu Zubaydah do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.