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My MGB-GT, she's a runner now.

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From what I understand for a certain group of people, performing torture is a lot like eating potato chips. You start with few brown foreigners and pretty soon, even though you say you can quit any time, you've worked your way into putting everyone on the rack.

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"Next time you grab that gas pump, think feces! "

That's not hard when you consider that we're already getting it in the ass at that moment.

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While standing in line at some Anus Burger Distribution Center I was being subjected to a mother’s large brood of noisy little nasties. After a while I turned and looked at the monsters and then her and said “Thanks for reminding me not to put off that vasectomy any longer.” She didn’t have much of a sense of humor.

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The enemy is our own worst impulses, which the whole Wikileaks thing is obviously feeding into. Torture cannot happen without someone to be tortured. So, in a way, is not the torturee just as responsible as the torturer? More so, even, as the torturee is probably not thinking of the good of the country while being tortured.

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Be careful for what you ask for. What if one of his guards looks like Lyndee Englund?

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"I can confirm that it did happen, but I can’t explain it to you without violating the detainee’s privacy."

Evil it may be...but this is such a fine example of military/industrial orwellian doublespeak that I may weep at the exquisite purity. I would still like to punch the fuckwad who said this in the mouth though.

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Shit smeared shopping carts: Here's a thought...everything is smeared with something. I read an article a few years ago about the presence of bodily fluids in hotel rooms. You might not be surprised at what was found on the ceilings of the local Holiday Inn. <i>Impressed</i> maybe...but not surprised. Let's take this a step forward. EVERYTHING has always been smeared with something, for forever. How is it we are not all dead?

Here's the irony. We're reaching levels of germ phobia that would make Howard Hughes say "oh come now". We're furiously wiping, washing, and disinfecting AND taking antibiotics every time we get the sniffles. What this may eventually do is give rise to a superbug that will laugh off our attempts to kill it, and kill us all in return.

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Have you ever tried to make a pyramid out of <i>clothed</i> prisoners? Seriously. These people know what they're doing. They've been through training.

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