The Beast talks about the dirty secret of American torture: sodomy and how nobody likes to talk about US torture other than waterboarding, as that’s something that you can pretend isn’t real torture anyway: That’s right; sodomy. Forcible anal penetration. The documentation of this and other forms of sexual humiliation is too extensive to be […]
Remember the police violence at the Countryside Alliance demo and all those formerly rabid Tories who said they’d never trust authority again? Glenn Greenwald has a great post up about the US version of the phenomenon, at Salon: The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition (updated below – Update II) Right-wing polemicists today […]
I know the BBC has shot itself in the foot a number of times this weekend what with Gaza and all, but this beats everything yet. Jonah Goldberg has a gig on on Andrew Marr’s Radio 4 discussion programme, Start The Week. Yes, really. He’s going to discuss his new book, apparently; The Los Angeles […]
“Some of My Best Friends are Ferengi…” Apparently those imaginary television characters the Ferengi are really the Jews, which obviously means that Star Trek’s writers are anti-semitic. Oh dear. The Protocols Of The Elders Of The Ferengi by Gavin Edwards Star Trek, in all its incarnations, invites its audience to consider alien race narratives as […]
Domenech For Dummies 2: Lame and Lamer Could it get any more recursive? It seems that proven liar, plagiariser and thief Bendontworkherenomore Domenech actually copied part of his immense fake ouput directly from the Doughy Pantload himself, Jonah Goldberg, now an LA Times columnist and himself the bloated, cowardly offspring of wingnuts. Goldberg got his […]