Blogwatchers are there,
The smell of blog is everywhere…

Hit & Run: Are Gypsies still being targeted for sterilization? The post recalls a lot of the points I made here–even without a policy of racist sterilization, there are a lot of reasons to think the dominant groups will get there anyway.

The Rat: ?!?!? (or, philosophie dans le boardroom.)

And from the Telegraph:

The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors. …

An independent witness who went into Abu Ghraib this week told The Sunday Telegraph that screams were coming from the cell blocks housing the terrorist suspects. Prisoners released from the jail this week spoke of routine torture of terrorism suspects and on Wednesday, 27 prisoners were hanged in the first mass execution since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Conditions in the rest of the jail were grim, with an overwhelming stench of excrement, prisoners crammed into cells for all but 20 minutes a day, food rations cut to just rice and water and no air conditioning.

Some of the small number of prisoners who remained in the jail after the Americans left said they had pleaded to go with their departing captors, rather than be left in the hands of Iraqi guards.

(more; via The Corner; and I’d really like to think that James S. Robbins isn’t implying that as long as Americans aren’t the worst possible option, anything we do wrong should be glossed over.)