Michael Mukasey.. does not know if waterboarding is torture? The son of a (expletive) cannot bring himself to say that a technique used in a Spanish war against his own people, a technique considered torture for 500 years, is torture?... I cannot grasp it even if one were to say Mukasey has acted out of ambition to become Attorney General. It seems to me like a desertion of the most basic human values that a Jewish guy from New York City, and from a religious prep school no less, must have been exposed to all the time.

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...A few nights ago, I heard Lou Dobbs say on TV... that Americans do not want to vote for any of the people who currently are running for president. One thinks Dobbs right, and when you read Novak’s book you might also think that, in a system which is comprised so extensively, even almost exclusively, of the kinds of despicables whom Novak finds everywhere in Washington and the state capitols, such a horrible choice as we now have is only to be expected...

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...The Times contributed greatly to getting us into the Iraq disaster in the first place by its credulous reporting on WMDs...and it then helped keep us in that disaster via contributing to Bush’s 2004 victory by kowtowing to Administration claims and withholding the story of the NSA spying...

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Weep for Harvard. Weep for the academic world. Weep for an America where immoral fraudulence is so de rigueur that reports of it don’t even raise an eyebrow among the powerful, but are instead regarded by them as simply the way everyday business is done.

Jacob Hale Russell's article A Million Little Authors, written for the November/December 2007 issue of Harvard's alumni magazine, 02138, is appended.

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