The big bottle of Budweiser, supine on the scoreboard, sweating and shedding chunks of pristine ice. My brother, also supine, reclining in the dimly-lit depths of a subterranean Turkish bath, his face covered in a towel, while a be-turbaned, scrawny youth flogged his pinking flesh with a bundle of olive leaves, sporadically soaking him [...]

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On Capital Punishment:Last meals are barbaric. If a person is considered sufficiently devoid of humanity to be executed, what aspect of his or her person are we acknowledging by fulfilling a request for steak? How can the state decide that a person doesn’t deserve to live, but does deserve a lobster? Shouldn’t the message be, [...]

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