No harm, no foul, guy. Your teen years aren’t so great anyway. I’m sure three years at Rikers Island without ever been convicted or put on trial were up there with not getting a car for graduation.
The ACLU is suing the CIA for reports on its torture program:
This isn’t the first time we’ve filed a FOIA suit in connection with the CIA’s torture program. In response to years of litigation by the ACLU, the government has released over 100,000 pages of documents concerning the abuse and torture of detainees by the CIA and Department of Defense. (These records are indexed and searchable through our Torture Database.) Though the government’s disclosures have shed critical light on the Bush administration’s official policies of abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody, much still remains secret about the extent of the CIA’s practices and the responsibility of senior officials in ordering them. Indeed, relatively few documents available in our Torture Database — only 106 of approximately 5,000 — were authored by the CIA. Ultimately, the release of the SSCI CIA report and the CIA’s response would further illuminate the program’s failings, the CIA’s internal view of its program, and the lies the CIA told to those charged with oversight of its activities.
The story of Skyfall‘s abandoned island.
Debo Mitford loved Elvis:
Debo advanced from easy listening fan to avid collector. Her collection contains many pieces of rare memorabilia (a plank of wood said to be from the fence at Graceland) to mass produced souvenirs (tattoo transfers and postcards). ‘One thing leads to another and it became a sort of joke…’ Debo said. She, too, could see the irony in owning such a vast collection containing street signs, car registration numbers, sketches, books, CD’s, slippers and a telephone which played Jailhouse Rock.‘People are surprised, but some people are easily surprised, aren’t they?’
What does it mean to be a successful graduate of a Christian college?
America’s first book is up for auction:
America’s history spans just a few centuries, but hundreds of hymnals. Colonists came seeking religious freedom, so the first book they printed was not a political tract or even a Bible, but a hymnal: a book to be used regularly in communal and even private worship. The intended use of the Bay Psalm Book tells us why it was America’s first book; it also tells us why one of the eleven remaining copies will be sold tomorrow at Sotheby’s.
I would love Rob Delaney even if he didn’t occasionally use his power to direct people to our indie feminist wizard website, but I feel I should mention that for full disclosure:
Delaney also fights the good fight for women and other groups that regularly get shit on, but he manages to do so in a funny way, like here: “First a woman nominated to head Fed, then one gets Nobel Prize for Lit. What’s next, a woman grows a man in her body & trains it to breathe?” In fact, Delaney is so committed to decency that he puts aside humor entirely once in a while.
