So this morning at the gym I was running along on the treadmill and the news on the Today show is featuring some guy discussing how torture would most likely be used in the upcoming weeks/months to help us “win the war”. The issue at hand seemed to be whether or not this should be done in the presence of a judge who had ruled that a particular enemy be tortured or if it should be done covertly, “off the books”, in order save the public from all this unpleasantness (and, presumably, avoid those pesky US laws). The speaker then explained the torture would probably consist of something very efficient – needles underneath the fingernails for example – something that would get the bad guys to talk with minimal effort on our part and without any unnecessary suffering for them. How thoughtful. All of this on the morning news. What a difference a year makes.
Also, I got my new Visor Edge today. While I can hardly complain about the customer service (it’s amazing), I’m wondering why it took 9 days to send the first one and less than 24 hours to send the second one. Hmmm.