"What is veiled now soon will be shown"

(Jefferson Starship, "Stranger," Modern Times.  Because I heard it twice back in the '80s, thought it was called "Familiar Stranger," and that it was by a different group that sounded like Starship.  "Stranger" doesn't atone for "We Built This City," but it lets me bury that crap beneath crunchy bass.  Crunchy bass rules.)

Right.  Where was I?

• Two Scott Horton (Harper's) pieces on Guantanamo:
• Six Questions to Prof. Mark Denbeaux on the Guantanamo "suicides" in 2006;

  The medical history of one detainee was missing from the NCIS file, but we found it in his medical records. His history contained a description of the cause and manner of his death by the senior medical officer who declared him dead at the clinic. The officer’s report did not mention hanging. It stated that the cause of death was asphyxiation caused by clogged airways. That would be consistent with having rags stuffed down their throats, but not hanging.

• Conversation with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!  (YouTube video; apparently isn't loading today)
• Fund-raising banquets and their discontents.
• Via Southern Beale:
• Autism linked to male hormones.  Uh-oh…
• Prototype Flying Saucer from, um, Earth.
• Sappho at Noli Irritare Leones on the stupidity of racism.  Featuring, oh, history.

  In fact, I question whether there are enough people left in the US who are white by this definition that it could be applied and still keep whiteness a going concern. Perhaps you could bar Jews from whiteness and still have a white majority, since Jews are a small fraction of the population anyway, but if you’re barring Jews and many Greeks and many Southern whites, is there really a white majority left? Exactly who was supposed to raise money sufficient to buy out Steve Jobs and send him on his way?

• In memoriam:
• Don Zimmer, literally in baseball before I was born.
• Chester Nez, last of the original Navajo code talkers.