Monthly Archives: January 2010

January 19, 2010

The Guantanamo “Suicides”: Truth will out.

Scott Horton at Atlantic: According to the NCIS, each prisoner had fashioned a noose from torn sheets and T-shirts and tied it to the top of his cell’s eight-foot-high steel-mesh wall. Each prisoner was able somehow to bind his own … Continue reading →

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January 19, 2010

Obama: does he get it?

From Balloon Juice: The Stakes by John Cole It is probably worth pointing out that wishful thinking aside, if Coakley loses tomorrow, thirty million or more Americans will remain one slip on the ice and broken shoulder away from bankruptcy, … Continue reading →

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January 6, 2010

Earthquakes this week on the Peninsula along the San Andreas fault

Five small quakes in the past few days on or near the Peninsula. This is unusual. I don’t know what it means but I am not getting on the 280; and I do have my milkshake materials ready.

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January 4, 2010

Camus’ “The Stranger,” re-read

This is the newer 1988 translation by Matthew Ward. Yes, I’m that old. Seems to be a different experience, though I did not have the old version at hand…even more spare and bleak. In his notes, Ward gives an example … Continue reading →

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