Archive for October 13th, 2006
Say what?
Interesting report from Newsweek on new terms being used by Bush and his pack. Language fatigue starts setting in the more you use a term that doesn’t fit, and now apparently they’ve moved on to other terms. The most recent mis-step is probably on the same magnitude as his usage of the word “crusade”, as [...]
You are what you eat…
Good article from Joseph Margulies of the WashingtonPost entitled The More Subtle Kind of Torment.
Margulies elaborates on how during the Korean War, mental torture was inflicted upon American POWs by their Korean captors in order to make them confess to crimes they didn’t commit. And in a sad twist of history, Americans now use [...]