Commoners

Corp. Charles Graner, an MP at Abu Ghraib, will be charged with conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty for woefully failing to protect detainees from abuse, maltreatment of detainees, assaulting detainees, committing indecent acts, adultery and obstruction of justice. Adultery. Trust the military to put things in their proper perspective.

Bush supports edukashion: “See, if you can't read, these jobs of the 21st century are going to go begging.” Fortunately for Bush, his job was created in the 18th century.

On the CIA’s central role in the International Union of Torturers, and the American archipelago, read this (link will work until approximately next Friday):
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nscoverstory.htm

The Independent notes that the crown princes of Spain and Denmark have just both married commoners, which is what happens when you let them marry whomever they want. I wouldn’t mention this except as a hook for saying that the Danish prince married an Australian, and you can’t get any commoner than that. They met in a bar, but you knew that when I said she was an Aussie, didn’t you?