Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Following up on
“Holy War
Watch”, another set of themed links on the confluence of religion,
politics, and stupidity:

From an FBI memo that was recently released, notes from an interview with a detainee:
Personally, he has nothing against the United States. The guards in the detention facility do not treat him well. Their behavior is bad. About five months ago, the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Koran in the toilet. The guards […]

For more on the “Downing Street memo”, here’s an article in the New York Review of Books detailing what it means and tying it to historical events.
Governor Schwarzenegger has a pothole dug in a road so he can be filmed filling it in. He could have just come further north to Petaluma where there […]

Just dumping some linkage today with a little bit of commentary. We’ve got Uzbekistan, Belinda Stronach’s surprise turn, Bob Novak being a $!% again, the DOJ being partisan, the British teachers’ union being antisemitic, and a surprise tidbit on Congressional culinary bigotry.

How’s this for a headline:
Brits in 2002: Bush Lying About Iraq Intel
Doesn’t that make an attractive headline? Wouldn’t it sell papers?
Above all, don’t you think it’s a pretty big news story?

From the “oops” department: Newsweek retracted a story about US interrogators at Guantanamo
Bay desecrating the Koran which led to rioting and deaths in Afghanistan.
If the US hadn’t done so many things in the past few years to make
this story fit a pattern, there doubtless wouldn’t have been a big
kerfuffle. I hear the retraction is caused […]

Last week or so, a pastor from a North Carolina church decided to become the religious light’s lightning rod for the time being by expelling all Democrats from the congregation, which has gotta at least wreck his tax status if anything. Well, what goes around comes around, fortunately: good riddance, I say to him; the […]

High school student in Georgia suspended for 10 days after refusing to end a cell phone call he received during break from his mother, a sergeant stationed in Iraq. Hooray for zero tolerance. Fortunately, the suspension has been reduced. The school should have had an exception for calls from parents and guardians. I’m sure the […]

This roundup has some pretty significant stories compared to most. It has its light spots too. Have a look.

Hey all, just making vague survival-type noises since I haven’t been posting in awhile. Your pitiful attempts on my life were all in vain.
Got an article forthcoming sometime in the next 24 hours or so.
I also accidentally nuked a couple of non-spam comments this morning during my daily housecleaning here. If the guy […]