I Just Could Not Resist

Vacation Schmacation.

There is a great holiday book out on the series "24." It contains, lots of commentary and a collection of essays about the show, some previously published, some thoughtful, some fluffy. While I like to think of "24" as escapist TV, here is one excerpt from the book, that should give any sane person pause:

All the people who were actually conducting interrogations were privates or specialists who had no idea what they were doing “[The Bush Administration] said the Geneva Conventions don’t apply, so we had no idea what the rules were. They took away our rules and our training, so we really had nothing to fall back on, and the only role models we had were from TV and movies.” (Tony Lagouranis, a former U.S. Army interrogator at Abu Ghraib, ).

Looking for a New Year's resolution? Do what you can to 1) stop this war and 2) put an end to the mentality that drives it.