Day November 20, 2006

Borat write thesis. It niiiice

With apologies to the blog owner, here’s an alternative take on this Borat business from the Christian Science Monitor: Sacha Baron Cohen’s crude Kazakh journalist may have originated in a dissertation on the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ in 1960s America.

Saddam trial ‘flawed and unsound’

So says Human Rights Watch citing “serious administrative, procedural and substantive legal defects.” But wait, wasn’t the invasion if Iraq supposed to be about bringing them democracy, not kangaroo courts? “The execution of [the Saddam] verdict will trigger a cascade…

The Brooklyn Abu Ghraib

9/11 torture lawsuit heads to federal court One disturbing incident, repeated over and over, is particularly haunting â┚¬â€ inmates head-slammed into a wall where the staff had taped a T-shirt with an American flag printed on it. The motto on…

Those fighting antiwar Democrats

Senior Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel wants to bring back the draft. Why? Because the U.S. needs more troops in more places to fight all the Hideous Menaces out there. This from a ranking Democrat. Guess he didn’t get the message…