My view of the intelligence services was formed during the Church hearings in 1975, and all the bad opinions I held then were only affirmed when the news about the CIA’s extreme rendition (kidnapping) and extreme interrogation (torture) protocols broke following 9/11. But then I heard James Clapper talking about his work in the IC…
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Lagniappe Sunday
A truly excellent rabbit hole. Click to draw a year (I got 27BCE, when there were only 288 million people on the whole planet), click again to draw a place (or you can pick one; I picked Egypt because, hey, three years after Cleopatra died), click again to draw his life (my boy died at…
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Election 2026
If you want to get to know a candidate, follow him around at work. We’ve got a chance here to vote for the real deal. That doesn’t happen often. Let’s take it. Find your polling place here.
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Election 2026
Listen here. Some excerpts: Townsend: “Make your pitch for why you think Alaskans should vote for you for governor.” JKT: “I want to put an end to the conflict and dysfunction between the legislature and the governor. We’re breaking records for the most number of vetoes in a two-year legislature in Alaska history. And I…
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#thiswritinglife
I’m happy to see so many writers organizations joining the Authors Guild in urging publishers to relinquish at least some of their Anthropic claims to the authors. The relationship between an author and their publisher has always depended on trust and an understanding of mutual benefit. The prestige and success of publishing houses is built…
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