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Obama: 'We tortured some folks' -- The folks over at DailyKos aren't amused.

HOMICIDE: Medical examiner says NYPD chokehold killed Staten Island dad Eric Garner | more

Lethal drugs injected 15 times in botched Arizona execution -- "'The people who were in charge of putting him to death really did not know what they were doing,' said Austin Sarat, a death penalty expert and professor at Amherst."

Fox News Calls Ruth Bader Ginsburg an Ignorant Misandrist

Decrease in Testosterone 50,000 Years Ago Made Way for Art and Advanced Tools, New Study Suggests

If You've Taken the Pill Recently, You May Be at Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

Full-Page Marijuana Ad to Appear in New York Times

Why Psychologists' Food Fight Matters: "Important findings" haven't been replicated, and science may have to change its ways. -- Really good article.

Existentialism

I'm not really a suicide risk,
mainly because I lack the courage

of my convictions. All that exists
is functional futility. Stilling

my own Newtonian motion might be the ultimate
synecdoche but would do nothing

to rectify the situation.
Death is a persistent but patient stalker:

let him do all the work. In the meantime
I observe the absurd gallivanting of songbirds,

the constant stridulation of crickets, the lanterns
of fireflies at night, signaling

their useless desire, their attempt to stave off
the impending heat-death of the universe.