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Victoria Hale,The Market Place and the Market Order
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Gus diZerega
Pop!Tech 2007, like Pop!Tech 2006, offered a wonderful array of creative people doing fascinating and vitally important work in that realm where society, culture, and technology come together. One of the most important at many levels was a talk given by Dr. Victoria Hale, a scientist who first worked for the FDA then Genentech. She…
Waterboarding and Dixie (not what you think)
By
Gus diZerega
Courtesy of John Cole at Balloon Juice, who credits the original discovery to Andrew Sullivan, this is too good not to post, even though I’m so busy I can scarcely sit down. Sullivan writes: “Waterboarding was sometimes used in the Deep South to torture African-Americans and to extract false confessions to alleged crimes. And when…
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