Tag archive for ‘new yorker’
BREAKING: Poll finds polls don’t really matter
Are the polls missing the (sub) text? Torey Van Oot poses the cell phone and polls question.
U-turn to the dark side
So inside that New Yorker cover there were articles. And some of them didn’t make sense.
They had this brand new thing on Obama’s…FLIP FLOP. Wait wait I’m not ready to board flip-flop-flapjack-dracula-attack-sub city again. Ok now I am. Now BBC News, which by the way, is notorious for their horrifying captions (case in point also: [...]
Why we’re still talking about Guantanamo
What merit lies in false confession? When cornered between a rock and a hard place, man will acquiesce to practically anything.
When by nature, torture is accepted as perpetual mental or physical pain whose sole purpose is to obtain an outcome, how is accuracy and legitimacy tested? What Ulysses of a man can resist the continuous [...]
The path to Iran
Legendary investigative journalist Seymour M. Hirsch— who recently spoke at UCLA— finally let loose with his highly anticipated New Yorker article on the Bush Administration and Iran. In a 5000-word piece called “Shifting Targets” he writes that things haven’t gone exactly according to the administration’s plan and so the approach to problem has shifted, [...]
Torture TV
It was TV that did it, that damned box! And now it’s got control of the military too!
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