Daily Howler - May 20, 2005

BLOGGER PANGLOSS! Good Lord! Kevin Drum says the New York Times is “state of the art” in perfection
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2005

TWOFER: Our whirring engines went down on Thursday, so we were unable to post. If you want to read Thursday’s HOWLER, you know what to do—just click here.

YOUR U.S. TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Today’s New York Times details the treatment of a 22-year-old prisoner at Bagram. Given recent, mainly irrelevant food-fights about the Guantanamo toilet allegation, it’s worth recalling the kinds of conduct which have been fully documented at Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Tim Golden is the Times reporter: