We’re Americans. We don’t torture. Any claim to the contrary is poppycock. It’s un-American. According to transcripts from the House of Representatives, CIA detainees… were made to wear a diaper [p. 79] had to listen to music [p. 79] were blindfolded [p. 79] Sheesh. Diapers, music and blindfolds are now torture? would be shackled hand-and-foot [p. 79] Now […]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Financial Decisions Being Made
Fri, 2 Jul 2010, 09:50 PM (-06:00)
In an interview on the radio recently, that paragon of clear thinking Michele Bachmann, complaining about Obama’s attendance at the G-20 summit, said I can’t, we can’t necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries. [Corley/ThinkProgress] Heck, I can’t, we can’t, you can’t necessarily trust the decisions that are being made […]
Sureity
Thu, 1 Jul 2010, 09:13 PM (-06:00)
1. Definitions. 1.1. Let Eu denote a universal set of outcomes that we are interested seeing realized. And let E ⊂ Eu denote some particular subset of outcomes. 1.2. Let Pu denote a universal set of people. And let p ∈ Pu denote a particular person in that set of people. And let P ⊂ Pu denote some particular subset in […]