Stephen Colbert tackles CIA poseur John Kiriakou’s lies about waterboarding
Stephen Colbert is one of the few on TV to tackle CIA poseur John Kiriakou’s revelations that he was making up his evidence in favor of waterboarding. (For more, see John Cole’s post, “Just Making Shit Up”) The Colbert Report…
“When torture was all the fault of poor, ugly hillbillies…”
It’s funny that when torture was all the fault of poor, ugly hillbillies of the sort David Brooks writes about in his Adventure Stories for Young Aristocrats, we had to throw the book at the evil-doers. Now that important figures…
Sheila Kennedy on Star Trek vs 24
“What I always loved about all of the Star Treks was what I call the kumbaya quotient, the multi-ethnic, multi-species crew of men and women working together on the bridge, concerned with the ethical dimensions of their decisions and seeing…
