This news story is disturbing. Not surprising, alas, but disturbing all the same. US soldiers in Iraq are apparently trading photos of dead Iraqis for free access to a porn site. Be warned, you can see some of the (probably milder) dead Iraqi photos on that page. Is this behaviour any different in principle from what happens in most wars? I suppose not. Ugly, ugly stuff.

I found the story when visiting Tom Tomorrow's website for my weekly dose of American political cartoons. Is there an antonym for serendipity?


...But on a lighter note, I saw Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit tonight and it was lots of fun. So that was nice.