Chicago Radio Host Waterboarded

Americans are still arguing over whether "waterboarding" is torture. We have been using this technique to obtain information from our captive terrorist suspects -- anything to obtain a confession, it seems. And it seems, understandably, that the victims of this and other brutalities we have inflicted will say anything to make the torture stop. So what is the information worth that we have acquired in this way?

"Waterboarding" doesn't seem to be a fitting term. "Forced drowning" is more accurate.

The outrageous radio show host, Erich "Mancow" Muller of WLS in Chicago, a right-winger, volunteered to be waterboarded, after having expressed his opinion that it was not torture. Take a look at how that went!



More on the topic here.

Atheist Dawkins' Five Minute Interview

Richard Dawkins, author of the bestselling book on atheism called The God Delusion, is an acclaimed British evolutionary biologist. Last year I received in the mail an ad for the magazine Free Inquiry, published by the Council for Secular Humanism. Included was a note from Richard Dawkins encouraging me to subscribe. His opening paragraph:

If you live in America, the chances are good that your next door neighbours believe the following: the Inventor of the laws of physics and Programmer of the DNA code decided to enter the uterus of a Jewish virgin, got himself born, then deliberately had himself tortured and executed because he couldn't think of a better way to forgive the theft of an apple, committed at the instigation of a talking snake. As Creator of the majestically expanding universe, he not only understands relativistic gravity and quantum mechanics but actually designed them. Yet what he really cares about is "sin," abortion, how often you go to church, and whether gay people should marry. Statistically, the chances are that your neighbours believe all that -- and they can vote.

I think that sums up Christianity rather nicely!

Below is a quickie interview of Dawkins from BBC News online:

Celebrities and news-makers get grilled in exactly five minutes by Matthew Stadlen in a series for the BBC News website.

RichardDawkins.net is "The Official Richard Dawkins Website."