I’ve been banned by another right-wing site, La Shawn Barber’s Corner. Sounds like such a comfy and welcoming place, doesn’t it? 🙂 Well, I guess after she offered her enthusiastic support of the torture at Abu Ghraib, and one of her commenters suggested that I should wear a sign reading “I Support Islamist Thugs!” (love the exclamation point), there’s not much reason for me to hang around there, anyway.
Before the prison scandal broke, I would continually tell myself that things weren’t as polarized in this country as they seemed to me. I was just reading all these right-wing rant sites, so that gave me an unrealistic picture of how fucking insane this country has become.
I was wrong.
When people from U.S. Senators on down are not only excusing torture, but endorsing it, I think we’ve lost our way. The question is whether we can ever find it again.