Errol Morris, one of the country's finest documentarians, is going to be making a documentary on Abu Ghraib.

Quoted: It is no surprise that someone is planning a documentary about the Abu Ghraib scandal; there will probably be a few. Already there is Robert Greenwald's latest, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers, which deals with one aspect of the prisoner abuse, and the PBS series Frontline has included the incident in its recent episode titled "The Lost Year in Iraq". However, there's a good chance that no others are or will be as good as the one Errol Morris is set to make. The project was announced Sunday by Diane Weyermann of Participant Productions (An Inconvenient Truth) during the American Film Market.

Garrison Keillor has written a nice little opinion piece for Salon.com.

Quoted: Maybe a period of stark repression will be a rich and rewarding experience for all of us. Who needs habeas corpus anyway?

Quoted: They won't have to torture me to get a good confession. I am a professional writer of fiction, my little monkeys, and if they turn the bright lights on yours truly, beans will spill by the bushel, names will be named, and dates, and stories will be told one after the other. Everybody who ever done me wrong, I am going to implicate them up to their dewlaps. A trial with hearsay evidence allowed and no cross-examination is tailor-made for a novelist. Throw me into that briar patch, Br'er Bush.

The magazine "Foreign Policy" wrote an interesting piece on terrorism and spoke to 100 experts across all party lines and job responsibilities to get a survey of what everyone outside of the Bush White House thinks. The shocker? Nearly ALL of them believe the war on terror is making us less safe and that we are waging a war if ideas using the wrong tools.

Quoted: “Foreign-policy experts have never been in so much agreement about an administration’s performance abroad,” says Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and an index participant. “The reason is that it’s clear to nearly all that Bush and his team have had a totally unrealistic view of what they can accomplish with military force and threats of force.”

hahatango just got featured on boingboing! Way to go, haha!

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This guy has a good point. The airports are enforcing strict guidelines with regards to carrying liquids onto planes, so they're asking all the passengers to dump them into one big bin of potentially explosive material. Brilliant. Very smart. Thank you.