revenge

Ponder this hypothetical situation: Victims of persecution and ethnic cleansing and racism are confined in a concentration camp At some stage during their torment some of the victims manage to kill some of the guards and break out of the concentration camp Many of the people living in the...

I AM IN FAVOR OF TORTURE AS A FITTING PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE FOUND BEYOND A REASON ABLE DOUBT TO BE GUILTY OF THE MOST HEINOUS CRIMES! Before you jump out of your skin with outrage, let me present my arguments for this point of view. I realise that many/most of you will find much/everything wrong...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1106254,00.html . . . . But the Pentagon leadership is unlikely to support a strategy that concedes broad swaths of territory to the enemy. In fact, none of the intelligence officers who spoke with TIME or their ranking superiors could provide...

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/24/nsabre24.xml "Police think they had been filming themselves" First person to find a copy of the video on the internet wins a special prize!!!

The vatican has announced that the pope is to be buried on Friday 8th April. This is the same day that Prince Charles is due to marry Camilla. I wonder if naughty king Henry VIII had any influence on their choice of date. :D Probably not, but I can't help but be amused by it...

Anyone notice that some pop-ups have found a way to defeat the blockers? Or is just me?

Of course kneejerk reactionary-ism/vigilantiism is bad. But what about well-planned, proportional, narrowly-targeted vengeance? Justice.

After an overly long delay, the Beer Thread returns. So, which beer are you drinking, and why? Be specific, please. Sorry, we won't accept: (1.) He was buying. (2.) It was cheap. (3.) You mean, there's OTHER beers?!