Utterly unable to comprehend the human predilection for torture.

True, I do sometimes “torture” Dante and Nemo by (lightly) squeezing them and asking them to tell me the name of the former leader of communist China.

But that’s different.

Can it be that I am really paying the salaries of the torturers?

This has got to stop.

Amy Goodman reporting this morning on how a 70-year-old Iraqi woman was tortured by US soldiers. They called her a “donkey” and rode on her back.

Can someone explain to me why anyone would want to do something like that?