Month: May 2005

The Gawker digs this up from a high schooler’s 1999 paper about a childhood camp trip: I was in the “Herons” group along with about fifteen other 8, 9, and 10 year olds …One Friday in July we went on a trip to Long Beach,...

“Reality-based community” is used to suggest that the person takes an objective and empirical view of events.  The term has been defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from their judicious...

From Salon’s War Room: From Downing Street to Minneapolis The Star Tribune isn’t exactly the Washington Post, but those of you still waiting for the mainstream media to dive into the Downing Street memo can take some...

(cross-posted at the Paper Tiger) Once again, Eastsouthwestnorth has done us a great public service by translating a huge chunk of an important article that recently appeared in the Chinese press. In ESWN’s words, the...

There is an article in the current Atlantic Monthly (sub req’d) by Stephen Budiansky titled “Truth Extraction”.  Subtitled “A classic text on interrogating enemy captives offers a counterintuitive...