Porn, Proctology and Hijackers

Good Morning. Several new items since the weekend.

• Pierre's Tuesday column looks back at the five years since 9/11, notes that sometime over the next few weeks the death toll of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will equal that of 9/11, and asks who, since then, has been American values' real hijackers. See "America's Hijackers Five Years On..."
  

• Porn for Troops: It's a truism that in war violence and porn join with seamless abandon. On Sunday, the New York Times ran what looked like an innocuous front-page story about risque dancers putting on shows for troops in Iraq. But the story was anything but innocuous, when you consider where the soft-porn shows were held: Haditha, the city where Marines conducted a massacre on 24 Iraqi civilians last year. See "From Massacre to Lap-Dance..."
  

• Once in a while it's necessary to stop and bend over, not quite to smell the rose. Pierre describes his latest visit to the doctor's and reaches a few religious conclusions in "The Prods that Try Men's Souls..."
  

• Candide's Latest has been extra busy with commentary on Katrina, our abusive military, and American fashion's sexualization of young girls, among many other items, all in Candide's Latest and its previous editions.
  

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