The importance of electing an experienced, knowledgeable, and progressive DA like Seth Williams has never been so clear to me as it was yesterday as I left prison for the last time. No, I was not myself incarcerated. I am taking Professor Marie Gottschalk’s PSCI 435, a class taught inside the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center [...]
Author Archives: abenson
Jerry Garcia for Pres!
February 4, 2008 – 10:12 am
Surviving members of the Grateful Dead are reuniting tonight for a one-off reunion show for Barrack Obama in San Francisco. Tickets sold out in about 3 minutes and all sold for $35 (donation to obama campaign). The good news for us folks here on the east coast who can’t make it out to the show [...]
The New Litmus Test
November 7, 2007 – 11:38 am
Mukasey was a shoe in. He had allayed everyone’s fears of his stance on torture. It’s illegal, he said! He was almost guaranteed a speedy approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Then comes the waterboarding debacle. After being asked to clarify his stance on waterboarding as a torture method, Mukasey was not able to give a clear response. Mukasey [...]
