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lockhart steeles curbed launches.
This post on Barbara Bush's beautiful mind has been completely rewritten. D'oh.
this last nights episode of the simpsons (the season finale no. 335) took a broad shot at the republicans. mr burns bought up all the media outlets in town (to controll his image) except for lisas popular independent small press. next everyone opened their own small presses a thinly veiled reference to blogging.
"There's been a lot of talk recently about the exact definition of "torture." Some say it's an accurate descriptor of what happened to Iraqi detainees in U.S. custody. Others say those detainees were not tortured, but simply "abused," and that "torture" is something out of Saddam's dungeons. In a Newsday op-ed this week, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg mused over the invocation of the word "torture". He joins Bob to discuss the political uses and abuses of language, and his new book, Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times."