Sad indeed… BAGHDAD — An unnamed woman, her face shielded behind a curtain and her voice masked, gave a harrowing account today of torture and sexual abuse at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s security forces during the trial of the former Iraqi leader. “They forced me to take off my clothes,â€? said the woman, referred to only as Witness A by the court. “They kept my legs up. They handcuffed me and started beating me with cables. It wasn’t just one guard,...

Some are saying that he’ll rule the all-time box office. What do you think?

He gets it…right.

Subject2Discussion is an internet radio program I’m on every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. CST. Apparently, the podcast of last week’s program was downloaded over 6,800 times. So if you want to listen tonight, just click here and you’ll either launch an audio application or you’ll download a file that you then click on and THEN it launches an audio player. I’m on a Mac so it’s different for me. Hope you like the show.

Hey all, the site has been down for pretty much the entire day now, so I apologize that the links I put up today aren’t working. We’re having server issues and hopefully will be back up soon. In the meantime…here’s a story about a different type of beatdown. UPDATE: Donklephant is back up! UPDATE: Back down again. *sigh*

Just the mere mention of that word makes men shudder, but recently a very high profile blogger got one and…wait for it…wait for it…….he blogged about it. Oh, you know you want to find out more.

It’s different, compelling and I completely disagree with it. Find out why…

Amid a flurry of news about their secret prisons being in Europe, the CIA has decided to move their prisoners to Northern Africa. From ABC News: Dec. 5, 2005 — Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania. Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European...

…but will we listen? I certainly hope so.

Good old incompetence…that’s how!

She’s going to meet with European leaders this week, in an effort to sell the Administration’s policy on torture. Will she get a warm reception? On Tuesday Rice will touch down in Bucharest to sign a deal opening American facilities in Romania that will provide stopover points for US missions in the Middle East and central Asia. One of them is likely to be the air force base of Mihail Kogalniceaunu, which has come under suspicion as an alleged “black siteâ€?. Parts of Mihail...

Thousands upon thousands turned out in Hong Kong’s streets to tell China’s leaders which type of government they want. Will Mao’s children listen?

This is totally off the topic of politics, but I figure a little diversion every now and again is worthwhile. Hide your acorns people. The squirrels cometh!

Then you’ll LOVE this link.

Any hardcore gamers out there? If so, check this out.

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Increasingly, I’m becoming fairly disheartened with Samuel Alito’s record regarding reproductive rights. Now some new memos released from 1985 do nothing to quell my fears. From the Wash Post: As a Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. helped devise a legal strategy to persuade the high court to restrict and eventually overturn Roe v. Wade , the historic decision legalizing abortion. In a memo disclosed yesterday that he wrote...

The Chief Justice of the SCOTUS proposes an interesting compromise recently. Read more here.

Well…maybe. Find out what killed him (or didn’t kill him) and who said it. And although some on the right would have you believe that the person who said it is possibly leaking military secrets, find out why they’re wrong. And when you find out that they’re wrong, spread this info around and please link to the post over at Donklephant.

I swear you won’t believe this. Or maybe you will.