on torture

I was going to write a big old post on torture and the end of democracy (as though we can call this tawdry thing being pushed on us "democracy"), but really all I need to do is to point you to these:

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2007/10/another-reason-.html

and

http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2007/10/enough-funny-go-read-this.html