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Posted on entry Yes, Judge, It IS Torture ::: October 31, 2007, 10:04 AM:
I'd like to see 24 or some other show or movie depict the good guys torturing the wrong guy.

I heard on NPR recently that The Shield got an award from a non-torture group for doing exactly that. Sorry I don't have links handy. I don't watch The Shield, but the gist of the story was that a dirty cop kills another cop and frames someguy, dead cop's partner illegally tortures innocent someguy brutally to death, while dirty cop, appalled but unwilling to come clean, tries to get him to stop.
Posted on entry Making Us Safer Every Day, Pt. II ::: October 22, 2007, 03:50 PM:
Dave @ 101:
Cutie must obviously refer to kids. Car bombs for kids -- oh, the horror, the depraved horror!!!!!
Betcha they're still trying to play those tracks backwards to hear the secret instructions.
Posted on entry Making Us Safer Every Day, Pt. II ::: October 22, 2007, 01:35 PM:
Maybe they thought that Death Cab referred to car bombs.
Posted on entry How To Wash Your Hands ::: October 18, 2007, 02:25 PM:
Sarah @336: I rather regret having my kids get the chickenpox vaccine, and our doctor in fact suggested that it might be better to let them get the disease while they were young.
(But I was working full-time, didn't have enough vacation/sick days to care for them if they did get it, plus the school had it on the required shot list, and my kids are terrible scratchers ...)
So now they have to get boosters, as 10year olds who've had the shot as infants have been getting chickenpox.
It does not seem to that much immunity, and cp is so much worse if you get it as an adult.
I'm not anti-vaccine: we get flu shots each year, frex. But I'm wary of new vaccines, and I was one of those moms who insisted her babies get the killed/Salk polio shot rather than the live/Sabin one, before the CDC came out with the same rec. I guess I'm just opinionated.
Posted on entry Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize in Literature ::: October 11, 2007, 01:58 PM:
TW @ 21: Thanks for the rec. That certainly sounds like a timely title.
Posted on entry Doris Lessing wins the Nobel Prize in Literature ::: October 11, 2007, 09:38 AM:
I've never read any of her books. Any advice on a good one to start on? (Meaning one with a good story in it?)
Posted on entry Dicks ::: October 05, 2007, 09:48 AM:
Is SecDef Gates' aide Debra Cagan Coulter's long lost twin?
Posted on entry "I don't need to know the details." ::: October 02, 2007, 11:29 AM:
Wasn't Aeryn's translator that Babel-fish sort of thing? How would that go on the blink?
Posted on entry More links ::: September 25, 2007, 10:05 AM:
serge @20 Yeah, the bathing suit seems retro -- suits her 50's pin-up girl look.
Posted on entry Open thread 92 ::: September 24, 2007, 10:02 AM:
Serge @ 211
I don't know ... but I just (re) watched Death Becomes Her recently, and I can just imagine Capt Jack with limbs apart and head rolling around a la Meryl Streep. Heh.
Posted on entry Open thread 92 ::: September 24, 2007, 09:21 AM:
I rather like Captain Jack Harkness better as he was on Dr. Who, a charming rogue, than he is so far in Torchwood. The mysterious immortal being role doesn't suit him as well. But I've only seen the 1st three eps -- does he grow into the role?

I'm another JSMN fan -- whoever said it was too short is exactly right.
Posted on entry More links ::: September 22, 2007, 01:03 PM:
She's gorgeous. I also love how not-tanned she is -- that's healthy skin!

Neat links.
Posted on entry Lying in the name of God ::: September 19, 2007, 09:07 AM:
There's only a disconnect if you take religion at face value. If, on the other hand, you see religion as a tool for enforcing or advancing a group's socio-political power, then clearly it is a good and time-honored strategy for religion to have a monopoly on handing out and interpreting the "truth". When outright censorship is not feasible, (dis)-information overload is an available alternative for accomplishing this.
Posted on entry Trauma and You, Part Three: Sticks and Stones ::: September 19, 2007, 08:42 AM:
Serge, xeger, Lexica, Leva ...so many qualified JLA members here! Excellent!
*rubs palms elbows together happily*

@160 hang both ankles behind my neck and walk around on the palms of my hands
I nominate Leva for JLA president.
Posted on entry Trauma and You, Part Three: Sticks and Stones ::: September 18, 2007, 09:32 AM:
Serge @ 146 -- The JLA is hereby ratified.

xeger @ 151 -- without bending your arms? Pretty sure it's not normal, as all my normal friends have assured me. My one kid can do it, but not the other (that one can wiggle ears though).
Posted on entry Trauma and You, Part Three: Sticks and Stones ::: September 17, 2007, 02:49 PM:
Serge @78
So that's my nom de guerre!
I may have some mutant elbow powers as well, as I am actually able to have my elbows meet when I extend my arms before me, palms together.
Posted on entry Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney), 1948-2007 ::: September 17, 2007, 08:12 AM:
I'm saddened by his passing.
Posted on entry Trauma and You, Part Three: Sticks and Stones ::: September 14, 2007, 03:26 PM:
If you were to ask me how many bones there are in a skeleton, I’d have to say “Beats the heck out of me.â€

Once upon a time I went to a foot doctor and he told me the reason I have flat feet is that I have an extra bone in each foot that weakens the whole structure. I am a mutant! Though I still haven't heard from either Dr. Xavier or Magneto. *pout*

I did feel slightly better though when I heard about a lady who'd found out, via an unrelated x-ray, that she'd been born with just one kidney.
Posted on entry Hugo! ::: September 03, 2007, 01:21 PM:
Just want to add my big happy CONGA RATS!!! to the list.
Posted on entry More Republican gay bathroom sex ::: August 30, 2007, 08:40 AM:
Further to Jim @ 226:
I've read that Sen. Craig resigning is not a net loss to the Republicans, since the Governor Otter, being Republican also, is sure to appoint a Republican replacement.

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