Gauantánamo Bay/Newsweek: Now that everyone has forgotten about the Newsweek article which brought such disdain from the administration's sanctimonious crew, the military is owning up to the fact that something like what Newsweek alluded to did actually take place. Copies of the Koran were mishandled in some disturbing ways that displayed not only disrespect for other people's religious beliefs but also the very poor training of some American troops in charge of the detainees.

It's important to remember that the alledged purpose of holding these people was to gain whatever information that might have in a war against terrorism. It seems that some of the guards assumed the detainees were incarcerated simply for the guards' sadistic amusement. Perhaps some American voters, in a vindictive mood, might find no fault with this, but as a tax payer, I do. I have no desire to have my tax money used to fund sadism for the amusement of idiots. Only a damn fool believes that you can possibly get anything useful out of a man who is being humiliated over his religion.

Putting Your Tax Money to Work for Private Companies: Senator Santorum of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a bill that will turn over tax funded weather information to the strictly for pay, private use of private companies. His argument is that government is now providing this universally important information over to the public for free (the public currently pays for it through taxes) and it should be available—for free—only to private companies so that they can sell it for a profit. Do I need to point out that these companies are funding his re-ellection campaign? Santorum knows who his constituency is—those few people who buy him the election. Is Ricky a senator? or a lobbyist?