Hey, It's aThought (Common Article III Division)

Thoughts while numbed before CNN:

In 1989, American forces played deafening music outside the Papal Nunciaturia in Panama City, purportedly to drive Manual Noriega out of hiding and into captivity. Concede that Nine-Inch Nails might count as torture, in any form. But query, would it be a violation of Common Article III of the Geneva Convention to subject the accused to incessant replays of George Bush Press Conferences? Blah blah stay the course. Blah blah keep America strong. Blah blah a uniter. Blah blah not a divider. Stay the course, hey stay the course. Nu-cu-lar, nu-cu-lar, NU-CU-LAR!

Hey, it’s a thought.

Background: according to this source, the fabled “booming of Noriega” is a bit of an urban myth—evidently at best, a bit of serendipity of which the top brass disapproved and to which it put a stop. Evidently President (the other) Bush thought it “irritating and petty.” Now, as to CNN…