PRUNO ANYONE?
"Back in December 2002, the warden at Lancaster prison in Los Angeles County removed fresh fruit from box lunches in the maximum-security lockup, as an effort to reduce violence. Apparently, sober, scurvy-addled felons are much easier to control than drunken, violent convicts. "
(THE BLACK TABLE, unearthed by Matt McCarthy)

TORTURE SHOW HIGHLIGHTS RUMSFELD COMPLICITY
The recent PBS program Frontline illuminated the complicity of the 'small circle of lawyers who surrounded the president' and 'together would create a legal theory that would permit the United States to act unilaterally in defining the 'rules of war' and justifying the unprecedented powers to be given to George W. Bush including the authorization of torture. "
(VILLAGE VOICE)