Not just Nixon, but Kissinger, just keeps on giving. Henry, who is Jewish, says on the tapes "And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.” Awfully nice of you, Henry, to accept that as "maybe" a humanitarian concern. If you ever wonder how these two had no problem with the carpet-bombing of Southeast Asians and the dropping of teenagers from helicopters in South America, it was not at all a stretch for them.

My god. That Billy Joel song caused my eyes to lose focus and my computer screen to melt.

@manticore: It sounds like an appropriate soundtrack for Hell (if there was such a place), or for a US secret prison...because listening to it is definitely torture.

Totally, man. I could really get water-boarded to that jam.

Peru fossils link is broken? Goes to WSJ article.

I don't understand why the PPB is so dead set against a drug test policy for the cops. What are they afraid of? It should be mandatory. You have to take a drug test to drive a forklift, for petes' sake. Why not the cops?