friends- I have been off blog for a few weeks while traveling and I celebrating graduations.
"I am trying to get back to the flow in a new spirit of not simpoly reacting, but, writing about things that matter to me.
but, meanwhile, I use the blog to track articles that need to be noted. so that I can reference them later.
Bob Herbert here notes the soul schisim between the george bush who promotes life for all frozen embryos and yet is so cavalier with lives of the letss fortunate or the suspect.
Amnesty international has today also calle Guantanamo a Golag, and they are right.

don't use torture in my name to promote "freedom"
With the Gloves Off - New York Times: "A recent report from Physicians for Human Rights is the first to comprehensively examine the use of psychological torture by Americans against detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guant�namo Bay, Cuba. The employment of psychological torture, the report says, was a direct result of decisions developed by civilian and military leaders to 'take the gloves off' during interrogations and 'break' prisoners through the use of techniques like 'sensory deprivation, isolation, sleep deprivation, forced nudity, the use of military working dogs to instill fear, cultural and sexual humiliation, mock executions, and the threat of violence or death toward detainees or their loved ones.'
'Although the evidence is far from complete,' the report says, 'what is known warrants the inference that psychological torture was central to the interrogation process and reinforced through conditions of confinement.'"