07-12-09
- Cannon Fodder for War Profiteers:
- Back From Iraq/Afghanistan ... With A Traumatic Brain Injury (npr listen) "One out of every five U.S. soldiers reports coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury, also known as TBI."
- Head-Fake Alert:
- Greenwald: The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux (salon) -- Sounds like another whitewash of the high-level decision makers who were actually responsible for the torture program. "The actions of higher-level Bush policymakers are not under consideration for possible investigation." (wapo)
- No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
- A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars (apod)