Click the cartoon to read it full size. Unrelated thoughts…. Today I watched several hours of MSNBC and CNN. Don’t ask me why. It might be some masochistic streak in my personality. Or I am secretly addicted to non-stop updates on all things Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin, and the endless speculation about the impact of [...]

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Dick Cheney (who pronounces his last name “Chee Knee,” because he’s as dumb as “So-to-may-er“) denies he ever said that thing that he said so many times that a majority of the U.S. public believed that it was true  — long after it was unquestionably NOT true — and that gave his government cover to [...]

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Where have all the flowers gone? Abu Ghraib, of course! Yes, I’ve posted on this before. Even did a cartoon. But I couldn’t resist linking to a photo gallery.

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Baghdad Central Prison, formerly known as Abu Ghraib, is open for business! The newly minted Baghdad prison has modern medical and dental facilities, a computer chatroom and a courtyard for visiting families that contains a children’s playground and a water fountain.Inmates will be able to sew their own clothes in a small sewing factory. The [...]

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Dahr Jamail from IPS News reports that Iraqi gravediggers are at “100% full employment.” They are so busy, in fact, that they have had little time to keep accurate records of the dead. “Most of the dead were never logged by anyone,” Ali said, “because we didn’t check death certificates, we just tried to get [...]

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