"I feel like a war criminal. It is painful to speak of such things and I would rather cover it up. It is painful, but I must speak"

It's funny how those with the most tenuous connection to the past seek most to excuse it... thankfully there are still some alive that witnessed first-hand.

The functional argument against Torture

Sticky-noted for future reference.

Whats on Iranian TV

I haven't had a lot of time for political blog posts, but as I'm doing laundry for the first time in two weeks, and given the neocons in the US seem hell-bent on starting a new war -- partly based on the rabid-right belief that all Iranians, especially the government, are raging anti-Semites, I thought it would take some time to point out what the government controlled TV is producing for an eager public.

(spoiler: a jewish-iranian love story set during the holocaust)

Iranians are good people, even if their government isn't so hot. Lets not kill them shall we?

Who was it that said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone"?