Next thing you know they will be declaring electrical shock to the testicles to be torture.

Pussies.
wengler | 07.02.08 - 10:29 pm | #

Yeah? Who gives a shit?
George Whosane Carlin | 07.02.08 - 10:47 pm | #

Make mine beer boarding.
Bollox Ref | 07.03.08 - 5:04 am | #

I've nearly drowned twice in my lifetime, and that's twice too many. It's a very stuffy way to go, suffocating in liquid as it is. Calling drowning someone deliberately anything but torture deserves to have the Tucker Telephone* hooked up to them for a long-distance call.

*In the 40s and 50s, the State of Arkansas prison system used an old Army field telephone as an interrogation and punishment device (it was called the Tucker Telephone from the name of the warden who used it). Cranking the phone applied an electrical charge to whatever part of the body the wires were attached to. A "long distance call" was a euphemism for torturing someone with the telephone. (take from the textbook "Corrections," (c) 1990).
The Wanderer | Homepage | 07.03.08 - 5:24 am | #

Well, this is a win-win situation: we get more testimony that water boarding is torture, and it's Hitchens who gets tortured.

Like I said win-win.

I wonder what would have happened though, if instead of water they had used single malt scotch.
Matthew Saroff | Homepage | 07.03.08 - 9:19 am | #

Matthew,

I suppose he would have drowned with a big silly smile on his face.
The Wanderer | Homepage | 07.03.08 - 12:04 pm | #

Nope Wanderer. If he were capable of dying from too much scotch, it would have happened years ago.
Matthew Saroff | Homepage | 07.03.08 - 2:15 pm | #