Bookworm on Oct 31 2006 | Filed under: Torture
Read this story about child abuse only if you have a very, very strong tolerance for the worst kind of sadism visited on the most innocent of victims. I point it out only because the child’s abuser (his mother) was in her mid teens when she had him, has another child, and there is [...]
Bookworm on Oct 01 2006 | Filed under: Anti-war, Iraq, Media matters, Torture, War crimes, World War II
Mr. Bookworm still finds troubling my political transformation, which is actually something I understand. After all, when we stood under the chuppah so many years ago, he knew what he was getting — a stalwart Democratic life partner. It was bad enough when his siblings, after 9/11, betrayed him by going conservative, but his wife! [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2006 | Filed under: Muslim violence, Torture, War crimes
I’ve often opined that the Left is stuck in Gandhi mode. This is the believe that the only possible form of resistance is the non-violent type. To that, I always point out that this worked for Gandhi because the other side was England which, in those days, didn’t have the stomach for bloody [...]
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