'Riposte' Category
Are we there yet?
No, of course not honey! Can’t you see we’re going in circles?
The Big Ruckus Down Under.
Is it just me? Or is the Western concept of “free-speech” so blatantly lopsided and biased that the misleading moniker should be revised to say “we-speech” ? Why is it that you feel you can say damn well whatever you [...]Sit Down!!!
Alhamdulillaah ala kulli haal.
An Ontario Supreme Court Judge ruled today that part of Canada’s existing Anti-Terror law was in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, effectively pushing away a murky smokescreen which has been used only against Muslims so far. Many folks in the legal establishment and within Muslim communities had serious concerns [...]Say what?
Interesting report from Newsweek on new terms being used by Bush and his pack. Language fatigue starts setting in the more you use a term that doesn’t fit, and now apparently they’ve moved on to other terms. The most recent mis-step is probably on the same magnitude as his usage of the word “crusade”, as [...]
You are what you eat…
Good article from Joseph Margulies of the WashingtonPost entitled The More Subtle Kind of Torment.
Margulies elaborates on how during the Korean War, mental torture was inflicted upon American POWs by their Korean captors in order to make them confess to crimes they didn’t commit. And in a sad twist of history, Americans now use [...]