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Alas, this is sad.
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Posted by Richard Bennett

There’s been a lot of discussion about torture on the blogs I read lately. Balloon Juice is on it, as is Cathy Young, Protein Wisdom, and of course Andy Sullivan, the world’s loudest torture critic.
OK, torture is wrong, mostly, depending on how you define it. Aggressive interrogation is right, mostly, and it’s a tricky thing [...]

Posted by Richard Bennett

I don’t update this blog every day, but the spammers do.
PS: I’m in California now. Heh.
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Posted by Richard Bennett

This is really not at all cool:

THE drive for “green energy” in the developed world is having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests. From the orang-utan reserves of Borneo to the Brazilian Amazon, virgin forest is being razed to grow palm oil and soybeans to fuel cars and power stations in [...]

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I think this is a big mistake:

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Creationism and intelligent design are going to be studied at the University of Kansas, but not in the way advocated by opponents of the theory of evolution.
A course being offered next semester by the university religious studies department is titled “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, [...]

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A reader (who just happens to be a pathologist) leaves an illuminating comment on Orac’s analysis of the path report commissioned by Christine Maggiore as part of her legal defense

Bruce McNeely said…
Orac, in my opinion your post is flawless.
As a pathologist (MD, certified by US and Canadian [...]

Posted by Richard Bennett

What’s better than losing a lawsuit? Why, a name change, of course:

At our swanky launch party in the Rainbow Room at New York’s Rockefeller Center on November 16, we changed out of our “pajamas” both literally and figuratively. We went from being www.pajamasmedia.com to OSM™ Media, LLC, the OSM being short for Open Source Media. [...]

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Respectful Insolence (a.k.a. “Orac Knows”) does a very careful analysis of the Maggiore-commissioned path report on dead child Eliza Jane and finds it wanting:

The bottom line is that you can compare these two sets of conclusions about what caused Eliza Jane’s death and decide which seems more plausible. The first, the coroner’s report, looks at [...]

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OSM™ Man of Science, Intelligent Design advocate Dean Esmay, is attacking me again over the killing of Eliza Jane Scovill by her mother, AIDS-denier Christine Maggiore. As you may recall, Eliza Jane died in May after contracting an upper respiratory infection that persisted for three weeks (or perhaps longer.)
The LA County Medical Examiner did a [...]

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Some people, Democrats and anti-Iraq War people, are upset with the wording of H Res 571, the resolution that the Republicans put before the House Friday night, which simply said:
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.
They feel it ignored the nuance and [...]