When Mohammed el Gorani was a boy in Saudi Arabia, he found that he could not find good work or education because his family was from Chad. A friend from Pakistan offered to connect him with relatives there who would help him get educated. He took his work savings and flew to Pakistan, where he was kidnapped by local thugs and sold to the US Army as an Al Qaeda operative. He was tortured by the thugs, then tortured by the Army, then sent to Guantanamo for six years, where he was tortured further.

I just read an article in the Washington Post about the naming of a federal coordinator for the Gulf Coast recovery. Bush has picked the FDIC chairman and a big campaign donor, Donald E. Powell. But what I found much  [more...]

Garrison Keillor steps out of Lake Wobegon for a moment to put the screws to the Republican Party: Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street  [more...]

Whatever would we do without internet name registries? Now we can see just what candidate our neighbors gave money to–and then treat them accordingly, eh? Courtesy of the lovely Mac the Fish, who in turn got it  [more...]