NPK is out of town, so instead of Friday Night at 8, welcome to a mini version of the NOLA/Gulf Coast Blogathon. I know NPK would approve!
April 19, 2008 archive
Apr 19 2008
Pfriday Phony Pony Party
this is a phony pony….SomeOne Pforgot!
here’s some more phony’s….
pflease don’t REC this phony pony. Go see some of the Great Essay’s on the Pfront Page. They deserve your REC’s.
Apr 19 2008
President Obama – promise me you’ll clean house?
Do these people have no shame?
The LA Times is reporting that the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles has been trying to ring up impressive numbers – by having his prosecutors going after, well, parking violators:
The disgruntled prosecutors in Los Angeles say they are now spending an exorbitant amount of time working on less significant cases — mail theft, smaller drug offenses and illegal immigration — to reach quotas. They cited the recent disbanding of the office’s public integrity and environmental crimes section, a unit with a history of working on complex police corruption and political corruption cases, as evidence of a shift toward high-volume, low-quality prosecutions . . .
Apr 19 2008
NATO’s Own Mercenaries Supply the Taliban
So in the news today, The Guardian has this story: Nato admits mistakenly supplying arms and food to Taliban.
Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted.
Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province…
A Nato spokesman said the pallets were carrying rocket propelled grenades, ammunition, water and food.
Nothing like delivering rocket propelled grenades into the hands of the Taliban to help “win” in Afghanistan.
Apr 19 2008
Friday Philosophy: Torture
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There seems to have been a lot of discussion about torture lately. How’s that for an understatement. I’ve taken note but have mostly resisted taking part in any of the discussions. Well, actually, I don’t suppose going to a lecture by a refugee rights advocate on Tuesday about the US role in torture actually counts as “resisting,” but I’ve mostly stayed away from online discussions. I’ve expressed my feelings about it in the past and it has not always been accepted in the spirit it was offered.
I was raised a boy, preordained to be a man. There is no dismissing that. That gives me a fairly rare perspective, given what has happened in my life in later years.
In the world of my youth, there were boys who took pleasure in torturing animals lower on the food chain. Like it or not, such boys were accorded status. Torturing animals was cool…up to a point. Except to those of us who thought it was gross. But expressing that disgust was a possible way to become a target oneself.
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