Now listen. I'm going to say this just once. For the first year or so of the Bush-Halliburton "war" in Iraq, all the pictures and videos of it showed the Iraqi men and boys--whom our troops had captured, and bound the hands of, and were leading off to be tortured and murdered--hooded. Grotesquely hooded. Like The victims of an Auto da Fe. After (the promotional advertising images of torture from) Abu Ghraib (were distributed in the spring of 2004), there were no more pictures of Iraqi men and boys wearing hoods--just stories about how dozens of them were being "found" every morning "with marks of torture" (sometimes the torture would be specified; usually it was "holes drilled in them," i.e., with metal-working drills). What drives me nuts is, I think I'm the only one in America who noticed those hoods, and I'm certainly the only one who noticed that the use of them (or at least the pictures of them) had been discontinued. You see, being the only sane, aware person in the country you live in is just the same as being hopelessly insane. Thanks and a tip of the hat to Jerome Coignard.