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Ales Rarus
A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
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habeus corpus
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Now that the alleged grounds for locking people up in Guantanamo are finally seeing, if not the light of day, at least the light of federal judges' chambers, it looks as though the government has been bluffing all along:
With some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its […]
Poor Deprived Children
CNN laments:
"Many of the children [wept up in a raid earlier this month on the Yearning for Zion Ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] have seen little or no television. They have been essentially home-schooled all their lives [and may be ahead of public-school students their ages]. Most were […]
