Let us all give praise at Bill­mon’s return to blog­ging, and his recent return to writ­ing. He’s one of the great trea­sures of the ‘sphere. Many of his posts are sim­ple con­trasts between two or more press pieces. Today, Chris­t­ian Sol­dier, a look at one Schi­a­vo pro­test­er who, as a for­mer pri­vate con­trac­tor at Abu Ghraib, seems to have come as close as any­one to say­ing that tor­ture was offi­cial pol­i­cy, and says of sadis­tic inter­ro­ga­tion meth­ods “This is fun.”

Pro-life my ass.

“Life Dur­ing Wartime” by Talk­ing Heads from the album Stop Mak­ing Sense (1999, 5:51).