INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SPAR OVER FURTHER POW ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
" A memorandum, written by the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to a senior Pentagon official, cites brutal treatment of Iraqi insurgents captured in Baghdad in June, several weeks after disclosures of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison created a worldwide scandal. The memorandum noted that officials had seen prisoners being brought in to a detention center with burn marks on their backs and complaining about sore kidneys."
P.S.: Historians Against the War has just produced a pamphlet that examines the U.S. government’s historical and current use of torture. You can find it at: http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/
(WASHINGTON POST)

 

ZACK SOTO'S SHOW CLOSES
As you can see, the reception on December 3 at Gallery 307 in the Design Building at LSU for "My Neighborhood", Zack's show of prints and drawings, was well attended. Audience response was tremendous. The reception officially marked the end of the run of the show (and his graduation from college).

HOW PAT TILLMAN DIED
"It ended on a stony ridge in fading light. Spec. Pat Tillman lay dying behind a boulder. A young fellow U.S. Army Ranger stretched prone beside him, praying quietly as tracer bullets poured in. 'Cease fire! Friendlies!' Tillman cried out. "
(WASHINGTON POST)

FAST TALKERS
"Doctors and government officials don't like to talk much about it, but there is an obvious reason people get hooked on methamphetamine: sex. Meth eventually destroys the sex drive, but for a short while it can boost sexual appetite and performance more powerfully than drugs such as cocaine, doctors say."
(MSN, unearthed by Joel Sogol)

SILLY SEX LAWS
"Ban gay authors like Shakespeare. Yeah, that's right, what we need are more laws. Or do we? A search of state criminal code databases reveals that there are already laws, lots of laws, regulating even private sexual expression. You might find some of them surprising."
(MSN, unearthed by Joel Sogol)

BOOK BANNING BILL PROPOSED
"Shakespeare and the Greeks may literally be history at Auburn University libraries if a bill banning works that recognize homosexuality becomes law in Alabama. State Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, is pushing a bill that would prohibit the use of state funds for the purchase of any materials that promote homosexuality."
(OPELIKA-AUBURN NEWS, unearthed by William R. Blanchard)