torture
October 7, 2009
- Easier than telling a story in a comic. I've never written a comic, so I have no idea about this, but the word "easy" got me thinking about the "easy" process of writing a book.Everyone probably has their own way of going about writing a book, but I would bet there’s a general, and fairly common, series of steps. 1. The Writing Journal Practically essential (for those who ...
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September 24, 2009
- by Adrianne AronSeptember 23, 2009, 5:44 pmFor this week's theme of Saying Good-bye, two little contributions. One was sung this morning, 9/23/2009, at the Federal Courthouse, where the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was hearing a case having to do with sexual abuse. On the bench of the 9th Circuit sits Jay Bybee, who authorized, in the infamous Torture Memos, abominable acts of physical and ...
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August 31, 2009
- Welcome to the era of Deranged Debate, in which subjects utterly beyond the pale are treated as worthy of serious argument.Torture? Criminally barbarous at all times. An unmitigated evil under any circumstances. Contrary to every principle of civilization, and everything America stands for. And yet in the pages of our leading newspapers and incessantly on TV and radio, torture by our own ...
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August 9, 2009
- It looks like Attorney General Eric Holder is on the verge of appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate waterboarding, and other illegal acts that were part of the interrogation policies put in place under the Bush administration. We've heard this for awhile now, but Holder appears to have decided on a criminal probe According to today's Los Angeles Times, members of the ...
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August 9, 2009
- A unique strain of viral disease killed Iranian protesters who were being held in Kahrizak, a prison a few miles south of Tehran-- at least, according to General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, the country's top police official. Symptoms of the previously unknown disease included broken bones, severe bruising and other trauma not usually associated with viruses.While admitting that "some ...
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August 8, 2009
- Here's another reason we love working at Red Room: Our jobs require reading the superb writing our community shares with us. Last Friday, for instance, one of the items on our collective to-do list here at Red Room HQ was "Read Red Room blog-topic-of-the-week entries." What a treat!We had asked the entire Red Room community to blog on one topic: "What are your obsessions? Your ...
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August 6, 2009
- There has been no shortage of news stories about how detainees have been treated at Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib before it. Likewise, there has been a lot of talk about so-called enhanced alternative interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and even dogs have been used as a means to get "enemy combatants" to cooperate with intelligence interrogators, but the ...
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August 5, 2009
- These days political torture is being much examined in the news: its use by the recently defeated Republican Party team of George Bush, its purposes, its physical effects on those tortured, its success (or lack of same) as an investigative device. Questioning and torture, we have learned, frequently go hand in hand, and Jacobo Timerman knew quite a bit about that.“Are you a Jew?” A ...
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June 4, 2009
- I had an unexpected call from a stand-up comic today who would like some writing help in editing and honing his material. If we go ahead with it, this would be a first for me, and, as such, offers a creative challenge that I would enjoy, provided we find a comfortable mode of working together (and he can pay my fees). So as I moved about my daily doings, including physical therapy, everything I ...
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June 1, 2009
- The act is so depraved so violent, so sickening, one shudders at the thought of what else percolates in the minds of those perpetrating it. Some of the details get lost in the translations, but evidence coming out of Iraq in the form of photographs and first-hand accounts make the torture at Abu Ghraib seem like child’s play by comparison.According to reports, a program of “sexual ...
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