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Woman, Thou Art Loosed (Not)!

October 6, 2005 No Comments

More of the peculiar brand of freedom that Bush has brought to Afghanistan:

Editor of Afghan women’s magazine arrested (via AP)
Excerpt: The editor of an Afghan women’s rights magazine was jailed after a presidential adviser accused him of publishing un-Islamic material — including an article critical of the practice of punishing adultery with 100 lashes, officials said Friday. Minority Shiite Muslim clerics in Kabul objected to that article and another in the monthly Haqooq-i-Zan— or Women’s Rights — that argued that giving up

Heat Dry Up My Brains

October 5, 2005 No Comments

The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette gives us a glimpse of compassionate conservatism in action: No aid planned to help low-income families, seniors with energy costs.

Excerpt: The Bush administration yesterday said it has no plans to ask Congress for additional funds to help low-income families and financially stretched seniors deal with rapidly escalating home heating bills. The Energy Department is projecting that this winter’s natural gas prices will run as much as 77 percent more than last winter in parts of the Midwest; home heating in the Northeast could rise by as much as 33 percent,

Five Feet High and Rising

September 30, 2005 No Comments

Our webmaster, toastmaster and master of all trades, Rich Kastelein, digs up this important story from Democracy Now: After the Flood: Where Have All the Prisoners Gone? More Than 500 From New Orleans
Jail Still Unaccounted For.

These were prisoners abandoned by guards as the flood waters rose. Some
had to break out of their own cells, with the water chest-high; others
descended to the lower levels of the jail to rescue other prisoners.
And lest Bill Bennett and his ilk think this was just a matter of hard-core criminal scum

Notes From Underground: Exposing the Maw of Bush’s Gulag

September 30, 2005 No Comments

This is a slightly expanded version of the column published in the Sept. 30 edition of The Moscow Times, where you will find full annotations and links to sources for this piece. For more, see the earlier posts on this issue: The Good Captain and Dark as a Dungeon. The illustration is by the incomporable Bogorad, the artist for The Moscow Times.

Quietly, firmly, relentlessly, the good captain laid out the list of atrocities committed at the order of the enemies of

Miraculous Organ: The Revelation of Saint William

September 29, 2005 No Comments

Virtuous Bill Bennett dreams of genocide:

“I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to
reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose, you could
abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go
down.”

That was Bennett, Reaganite moral scold and gambling junkie, holding forth on his radio talk show this week. (Via Media Matters.)
To be sure, Wild Bill then pulled a classic Nixonian maneuver:
divulging an evil intent, then qualifying it, for public consumption,
with