Ebert speaks the truth; and wonders at the outrage of the nations powerful and ultra-rich.

Yet none saw solitary confinement as anything less than torture. This presents us with an awkward question: If prolonged isolation is—as research and experience have confirmed for decades—so objectively horrifying, so intrinsically cruel, how did we end up with a prison system that may subject more of our own citizens to it than any other country in history has?

The resignation letter of an AIG executive explaining his point of view on the bonus furor. The proverbial other side of the story.

The Big Picture comes through again with this excellent series of photos from the Inauguration.

A great essay by George McGovern

Seriously, they let him out like this?

Gruesome views and pictures of war. War is Hell.

Heh.

With all the wingnut crowing about CBS and 60 Minutes, you'd think they blew the story that Bush had been AWOL. Fact is, CBS got one piece of evidence wrong, from a while truckload of evidence.

Yeah, that's wrong.

Where your money goes.

Cancel Inauguration Parties. Mark Cuban gets this idea right.

You've got to be kidding me, right?