They’re still talking about whether or not the water-boarding interrogation technique is a form of torture. I think it’s a bit silly to try to define torture. Torture means different things to different people. Apparently a lot of people voluntarily watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann. I would consider it torture to be forced to watch Olbermann. Or to listen to Hillary Clinton speeches.

Think I’m too flippant regarding a serious subject? Then consider that one technique used to break terrorism suspects is to force them to listen to long sessions of loud rock music.

(After writing this, but before publishing it, I read a column by Bert Prelutsky in which he makes a similar point.)
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A few days ago I read an article (lost the link) about the ongoing debate on the conflict between Darwinian evolution and the account of the creation of humans in the Bible’s book of Genesis. In Genesis it says that God created man in his own image. Darwin says that humans evolved from monkeys. The resolution of this conflict is simple. God looks like a monkey.
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Imagine this: You’ve decided that you’re not satisfied with your current job. You want one that gives you more power and maybe a little more pay. You tell your boss that you’re going to spend 90% of your time over the next year looking for that better job, and that you expect her to keep paying you a full salary during that year.

Well, that is exactly what several of the candidates for president have done. Senators Cllinton, Obama and McCain and Representatives Kucinich, Paul, and Hunter obviously aren’t spending much time on their current jobs, but they’re still getting paid.