This week, George W. Bush responded to the CIA torture report which affirmed that America engaged not only in waterboarding and renditions but also in forced rectal feeding.
It wasn’t so bad. Every Super Bowl Sunday, we stuffed a pizza in the butt.
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- Old Print Articles: Mark Twain dies of a broken heart–and a heart attack (1910) + The Teleview (briefly) brings 3D film to Manhattan (1922).
- Featured Videos: The “office of the future” as ergonomics run amok + Disney imagined the world as an interconnected motopia (1958).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Yes, Gabapentin.
- China is now the world’s biggest economy. Should the U.S. be worried?
- Body cameras may yet have a role in reducing police brutality.
- A real-life child abduction might have spawned Nabokov’s Lolita.
- African-Americans may have a different take on the fall of The New Republic.
- Tom Carson writes gorgeously about that West Coast Welles, P.T. Anderson.
- Pre-Napster, people stole songs from the Columbia House Music Club.
- Taxi Commissions are starting to Uber-ize.
- Disappearing habitats may be causing the consolidation of species.
- Long before Silicon Valley, Victorians understood technology and futurism.
- Andrew McAfee doesn’t believe species-threatening AI is upon us.
- Computer pioneer Clive Sinclair believes AI will be the death of us.
- Sinclair’s 1980s EV tricycle was innovative and a flop.
- A hyper-meritocratic technological society may be like the Middle Ages.
- Lowe’s employs sci-fi writers to help them “author” the future.
- Facial-recognition software may make shopping an invasive experience.
- A peek inside a distribution center staffed by “robotic” humans.
- If robocars are perfected, they will be popularized in myriad ways.
- Suburbs may become popular again in the coming decades.
- In the 1970s, Norman Mailer and Jack Henry Abbott became tragically linked.
- Some of Ross Perot’s billions have been used to save the ENIAC.
- MIT designer Neri Oxman has fashioned bio-spacesuits.
- China producing innovative businesses may benefit America.
- Shinzo Abe knows Japan must reinvent itself.
- Wage stagnation is driven not by market conditions but by a mentality.
- Race plays an important role in American marijuana arrests.
- In the future, Virtual Reality may be a tool or a weapon.
- Film franchises, so popular now, have a long Hollywood history.
- Zara chose robotization over outsourcing.
- A brief note from 1925 about Delaware whippings.
- A brief note from 1925 about a broken heart.
- A brief note from 1933 about a salesman.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.