Gratuitous Video Feed
Herbie Hancock: “Rockit”
I always found this video disturbing–those mechanical things that look like people, in the throes of agony or ecstasy.
Remember When?
Jason Leopold reminds us of a previous liberal vendetta against waterboarding, carried out by Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice, back when we thought the practice illegal:
In 1983, the Justice Department prosecuted a Texas sheriff and three of his deputies for waterboarding prisoners to get them to confess to crimes.
The deputies were sentenced to four years [...]
