wooo torture

Oy. If you're familiar with what congress passed last week with that detainne treatment / military tribunals bill, take a swing through the NYT editorial, which outlined what the law does.

They conclude that it's "a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts."

Here's the roll call.

One Republican (Chafee) voted no, and 12 Democrats voted yes. It was generally some of the usual suspects, but included Lautenberg, Menendez and Stabenow. Clinton, Biden and Schumer all voted the right way...

And lastly, on a lighter note, Art Buchwald's essay on spinach as torture.