Daily Archives: May 30, 2009

You Are Here

NASA produced “universe extension timeline”: This is the universe we live in. And there might be others. See here and here.

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Salon Asks Barack Obama’s Great Uncle About His Role in the Liberation of Ohrdruf Camp During World War II

Salon recently interviewed Barack Obama’s 84 year old great uncle, Charles Payne. Obama’s uncle, a veteran of World War II, helped to liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Here’s the part of the interview in which he describes what he witnessed … Continue reading

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Debating Torture and the Law at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Scott Horton v. Stu Taylor:

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Poem for a Weekend: Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”

I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and … Continue reading

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