Apparently the Trump administration is drafting an order to review the usage of “black sites” abroad.
In plain English that’s called “conspiracy to commit torture” which is a crime under Section 18 of the US Code, chapter 113c.
According to the Washington Post[1], most of the State Department’s mid/senior management has resigned en masse.
The US Constitution is not a special document. It’s traditional for Americans to say something flattering about the great political geniuses who devised the US political system, but I don’t think they were so hot: after all, the country they built didn’t last 100 years before it fell apart in a vicious civil war. The democracy of the republic is a multi-levelled sham, first because something like 70% of the population (women and slaves) were disenfranchised, secondly because the franchise was mooted by the superimposed electoral college.
Look, another oligarch is thinking about playing politics! It’s everyone’s favorite online payment entrepreneur, vampire, Hogan-puppeteer and gawker-crusher…
I like The Great Courses, I really do. A couple years ago when I was doing a lot of driving, I used to listen to them fairly often; they’re interesting, they get really enthusiastic and excellent teachers, and the topics are pretty diverse.
Too bad they’ve joined the war on authenticity.
Jeff Bezos has just purchased the biggest house in Washington – a gorgeous $24 million textile museum designed by the great architect John Russell Pope. Plans are to turn it into a single family home.[1]
Warning: this post is kind of long.
I like to avoid psychological terms, because I am skeptical regarding the epistemology of psychology* – but, to simplify the rest of this posting, I am going to freely use a term: “Sociopath”/Sociopathic.
(Pause) Oh! Hi! Hello There!!!
I’m sorry, I was having a little problem with my headset. Anyway, I’m Amy …
Universities that run pro sports teams under the cover of “academics” like to justify it as bringing in funding and helping the endowment.
The Boy Scouts of America have booted a transgender boy. Because, uh.