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Friday, 13 May 2005

1) The Abu Ghraib defendant who made an Iraqi stand on a box, holding wires as if he was about to be electrocuted, says it was all part of a shared joke, one the Iraqi victim (nicknamed "Gilligan") was in on, according to her attorney:

"This was a joke. Gilligan understood it to be a joke. It was all part of their relationship."

2) Robert Blake says he didn't use a telephone in his wife's purse to call 911 because he didn't know how to use a cell phone. But when the prosecution in the current civil case suggested that perhaps he was actually delaying medical treatment, Blake claimed the moral high ground:

"That's offensive, sir."

3) In a column opposing wage increases for Wal-Mart employees, syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell has come up with the creative argument that a worker must already be paid sufficiently, simply because he is not yet dead:

"How is he living, if he is not making a living wage?"

4) For anyone vaguely conversant with 1990s politics, this one is a dazzler: Hillary Clinton seems to think that the way to improve her chances at becoming president in 2008 is to deny her differences with Newt Gingrich:

"[T]he speaker and I have been talking about health care and national security now for several years, and I find that he and I have a lot in common..."

5) Making the case for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which would directly cause the deaths of thousands of sick people, George W. Bush nonetheless describes the deal as a win/win:

"CAFTA brings benefits to all sides."