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    pooks: What method has been shown to reveal reliable evidence? Has someone presented a more effective alternative, and if so, why aren't we using it? The gov... more »
    Pope John Peeps II: hey good piece! more »
    sirjohnoldcastle: I just don't understand why real life isn't more like 24. more »
    RheaPollstry: I love the term "enhanced interrogation". You know, like the way a sexual encounter is enhanced by a coke-fueled beating. It's just enhanced, y'all. more »
    HiredGoons: Are they really still considered 'officials'? more »
    ThreeWiseMen: Is there a way to screen out the the half-baked "news analysis" stories from my default Gawker page layout? For the same reasons I don't read the WSJ ... more »
    bytememehard: Well, smack my ass and call me Agnes! Serious, smack it. Like you mean it. Go ahead, do it. more »
    The Recession Is Over: Every time Jack Bower tortures someone he seems to get really reliable intelligence right in the nick of the time. In fact, almost invariable any inte... more »
    pepelicious: Everybody got a free pass. STFU and get over it Bushies. more »
    flossy: Oh yeah, and the best part of those memos comes after they describe in detail all the ways we tortu--I mean, interrogate people, when Bybee and the ot... more »
    Kari's Favorite Mark: I like dogs so I'd find their presence comforting. more »
    morninggloria: Jesus was tortured. We were just trying to make them more like Jesus. more »
    flossy: Don't worry though--a whole one out of every ten of the suspects we detain for being suspected terrorists are actually guilty of stuff! USA! USA! USA! more »
    BadUncle: Oh, come on now. As we know from Torquemada, the innocent will find strength through God to endure pain, if they are telling the truth. And they will... more »
    gawkimo: I am beginning to suspect those people that say dumb things on the radio are very popular among people who listen to the radio. What is radio? Cancer ... more »
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    Bush Officials Explain Why We Shouldn't Admit Torture: Because Then They'll Know We Torture!

    Two disgraced Bush flunkies have written a Wall Street Journal op-ed attacking Barack Obama for releasing the torture memos. In doing so, they admit that what we did actually was torture. More »
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    Don Imus Has Cancer

    Radio-talking Marlboro Man doppelganger Don Imus, a famous racist, has cancer. He announced it on his show this morning: More »
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    Bonnie Fuller Lies On Her Mother's Grave

    Amid general rejoicing in the humiliation of boss-from-hell Bonnie Fuller, have some sympathy for the departing American Media editorial director. Fuller not only failed to turn American Media's supermarket tabloid Star into a real competitor to the glossier Us Weekly; she recently lost her mother. But the driven Canadian-born super-editor—who boasted of her ability to juggle career and family in a recent advice book—may have used her mother's death to manage the news of her departure. New York Post terrier-like media reporter Keith Kelly was sniffing around last week. Bonnie Fuller's shameless response? More »