There is no animal as affectionate as a wet dog.

Peggy Johnson.

Brownie, Rummy, Wolfie, ..., Condi, Bushie: A heckuva job by one and all!

Please don't act like your ancestral apes.

Torture doesn't work, but it sure is fun!

New York Times.

As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.

The psychologists and other specialists, commissioned by the Intelligence Science Board, make the case that more than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has yet to create an elite corps of interrogators trained to glean secrets from terrorism suspects.

Those who cannot forget Santayana are doomed to repeat him.

by saying "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Compare with Jane Ace's "Those who cannot forget the past are doomed to remember it."

Join the Assault on Reason.

Here's how. Caveat: May raise your blood pressure.

Don't Abandon Our Troops. Get them out while we can.

HONOR THE DEAD by not adding more.

Win Without War.

I blame Ralph Nader.

He knew what he was doing in 2000.

It will take more than a generation to repair the enironmental damage alone.

If humans cause global warming, how did the Ice Age ever end?

Runner-up in a contest by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Denial is not a strategy.

Jerusalem Post.

No, seriously, why are we destroying Iraq?

Iraqis: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Define "Victory."

Thanks to Don Hall.

Now only 92% of the World's opium comes from Afghanistan. Who says there's no progress?

Washington couldn't tell a lie. Nixon couldn't tell the truth. Bush can't tell the difference.

Actually, it would have been cheaper to buy their oil.

Bright taled and Bushie eyed.

That's OK. We've got Air Conditioning.

East Coast to get 10 degrees hotter.

All the President's Men ... and Condi, too.

Each Catastrophe Requires a Trifecta.

Several very bad things have to happen at exactly the wrong time and exactly the wrong place. See The Next Catastrophe.

There is nothing in this car that is worth your life.

Thanks to Donald Scott.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall.

Robert Frost.

Computing is too important to be left to men.

Karen Spärk Jones, now unfortunately deceased.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

That's OK. I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway.

Help Bush eliminate traces of government competence.

90% of happiness is picking the right ethicist.

Dilbert.

BIG BROTHER wants REAL ID

Privacy Coalition site.
George Orwell's 1984.

Subscribe today to the Journal of Experimental Arithmetic

In the current issue: "An empirical test of the Roman Folk Theorem II + II = IV"

Since we're going to fail anyhow, let's fail before more people die.

09 F9 11 02 Look it up!

Ed Felten explains.