Weirdest Dream lately :
I dreamed I was on the "other side" when my Dad was passing. I spoke to him and made sure he was okay. Then I woke, and knew he was gone. 30 minutes later, we got the call from the hospital saying that his blood pressure had crashed in the last 30 minutes.
Currently working on :
A BTVS related story called "Long Goodbye" which deals with a member of the Watchers Council being vamped as part of an experiment.
Also completing my nanowrimo effort.
A blog for that outspoken and aggressive member of the Buffy Bulletin Board.
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
The Geneva Convention
And the short term memory problems of FOX and AMERICA.
The Germans have a word, schaudenfreude, which translates as "Broken Laughter". It means the laugh you get when you are laughing at someone else's misfortune, or a tragic situation, or when someone gets their comeuppance. That's how I felt watching Rumsfeld complain that Iraq had violated the Geneva convention by putting the troops on television.
Rumsfeld is a pathological liar. The way he can say stuff like that without grinning like an evil fuck into the camera, or at least breaking into demonic laughter, just amazes me.
Did he somehow forget or not see how FOX spent most of Saturday putting Iraqi prisoners on display?
The hypocrisy of this was reported in various places.
An excellent piece at anti-war A good piece at MSN
So leaving aside the fact that putting them on tv is not expressly forbidden by the Geneva Convention, I take comfort in the fact that Iraq says the POWs will be treated humanely. That's a fuck sight better than the US with their "unlawful combatent" status, where they say you're not a POW, you have no rights, and the Geneva Convention can go and shite.
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
