Saturday, August 09, 2008

The infamous "pounzan" or stance prisoners in Burma are forced to assume for long periods of time --

http://www.aappb.org/pounzan.html

Echos of Abu Ghraib --

How do the prison wardens

of all the world's countries

learn from each other?

By telepathy.

Poem Copyright Kyi May Kaung.

Conn Iggulden is an amazing writer--from Rome, to Genghiz Khan and his descendents, to War of the Roses, to Athens--

he started writing on a borrowed computer in the corridor of his father-in-law's office, and is descended from Irish wandering storytell...