EconTech

That’s what it means to say something fails the Turing test: they are not identifiable as human, though usually in the context of computers and artificial intelligence:
What Does John Yoo Believe?
A correspondent sends me to a 2000 article by Yoo, “The Imperial President Abroad”, an article that opens:
Aside from getting himself impeached, President Clinton’s most [...]

Marty Lederman Defends John Yoo

Wow. Just wow. This is supposed to be a defense:
Balkinization: There has been a great deal of discussion in the blogosphere and the legal academy about the question of whether the OLC torture memoranda were not merely wrong, horrifying and indefensible, but actually criminal. My own view, roughly speaking, is… that [...]

Sorry. Really, I had to.
The response Brad links to does not respond to the questions that he had previously brought up (and that plenty of people are asking). I do want a response as to why public funds are still paying this man to build a falsified case for crimes against humanity.
As a note for [...]

Seriously, I just don’t understand how this administration has gotten away with breaking as many serious laws as they have. I don’t like, but can see, politicians getting away with things like corruption, nepotism, inept wars, even false premises for war. These are all things that strike at our values of democracy. But even then, [...]