Author: rba

JURIST just put up a link to the Jane Mayer article over @ New Yorker, subtitled:  How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.  No subscription required.  Thank you to the...

Ok, you want to get it together?  Fine.  Here’s how the political land lays:  MoveOn, MovingIdeas, Media Matters (the “M”s), the 70 liberal blogs on your right,  as well as the Democratic,...

Riverbend’s new entry, The Raid, describes the environment in her neighborhood in Iraq.  The story begins here: We were collected at my aunts house for my cousins birthday party a few days ago. J. just turned 16 and...

I just can’t hardly stand it.  Opened the LawCom news article to find that:  “Tests showed that Pirate’s Booty, Fruity Booty and Veggie Booty had more fat than advertised.”  Cracked me...

Put an end to the clumping, scented, ammonia-enhanced odors of catboxes by toilet-training your cat. Brought to you by the ever-watchful, slightly bent minds over @ gizmag.  Gives “super bowl” an entirely new...