Cop Tasers Naughty Child
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN Ozark, Arkansas. Domestic disturbance, officer on the scene. A struggle ensues in which the assailant resists arrest, is verbally aggressive and even kicks the officer in the groin. Appropriate force: taser jolt to the back. Except that the assailant was 10-years old. And her crime: she refused to get ready for bed. I'm not sure how the cops ended up being called - maybe it was the mother's way of trying to threaten the child. And she apparently told the cop to taser the little girl "if I had to." What? Apparently, after wrestling with the girl on the floor O

Texas Marriage Ban: Proof Bigots Are Stupid
WHEN TEXAS LEGISLATORS PASSED a law against gay marriage, following its support in a referendum, it seems that their intellect was as low as their open-mindedness. The law certainly bans gay marriage alright. But these jokers wanted to make sure that no gay could have anything vaguely resembling a marriage. No sirree Bob. NUh-uh. Nope. Well, they certainly found the one certain way of making sure that no gay marriage slips through some tiny loophole. They including in section B of the law a clause that reads: "This state or a political subdivision of this state may not creat

Canadian Forces Promoted Torture In Afghanistan
PERENNIAL ASSHOLE STEPHEN HARPER AND HIS weaselboy sidekick, Peter MacKay, may not have figured out how to open the envelopes with briefings about how Canadian soldiers were handing over Afghans to be tortured - but at least somebody noticed and is now blowing the whistle big time. Richard Colvin, a senior diplomat to

Afghanistan: Morale Down, US Payments To Insurgents Up
IT SHOULDN'T BE A SURPRISE TO ANYONE - especially after the massacre at Fort Hood - that soldiers in the US military are under strain. US troops have now been in Afghanistan for 8 years and have no real progress to show for it. Their commander, Gen. McChrystal, says that they're going to lose if they don't get tens of thousands more troops, and their president can't seem to make up his mind whether to follow the general's advice or not. The conundrum of an occupation that is unravelling bit by bit is not only clear from a recent report (see video below) of Afghan insurgents over-running a US base - a common sight now that the US has abandoned rural Afghanistan. It is also painf

Scientology Racket Up For Torture In Australia
FAR BE IT FOR ME to judge people who want to form a church based upon the writings of a science fiction writer. After all the Mormons did it and their guy - Joe Smith - had a much less interesting name than L. Ron Hubbard. And, I'd be a hypocrite to say that Scientology's belief in, say, an alien named Xenu, who brought humans to earth billions of years ago in a bunch of DC-8s and then blew them up on the rim of a volcano - without mentioning that it sounds no less crazy than thinking a God came down, impregnated a woman in ancient Judea with his son and then let him die a horrible, mutilating death in order to free the souls of humanity. However, not all of Christianity is