I can’t say it much better than Sisyphus Shrugged.
You know, frequently I think I’ve come to the point where the rotting undead corpse of irony will no longer stalk through my newsreading experience, shedding body parts and looking for sexually indelicate teenagers to eat, but somehow I always find that I’m wrong.
The government has been arguing that we shouldn’t release the videotapes of prisoners being tortured in Abu Ghraib because
wait for it
it would violate the prisoners’ rights under the Geneva Convention.
Those would be the prisoners who are languishing without representation in Abu Ghraib because it is the official position of the american government that they aren’t covered by the Geneva Convention.