Funding Homophobia In Africa

The Bush administration may not have meant this (yes, I know, the benefit of the doubt again) but it comes with the territory when you're funding abstinence-only programs in Uganda. Ed Brayton comments here.

A Time to Investigate

The NYT investigates how U.S. tortue policies have crumbled via the current administration. It's all there. Dig in.

Andrew Sullivan asks the important question: "We have war criminals in the White House. What are we going to do about it?"

Oh, and just so everyone will stop quoting Bono and praising him as an international spokesman against torture, let's not forget someone said it first (and better):

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146