Torture…

July 25, 2008 /

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=PtS45bh_INY[/youtube]

I wrote last year about waterboarding, and how it’s clearly torture, no matter what the dickwads in Washington think. Well, I was walking Genevieve the other day, and listening to Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me on my beloved iPod, and what should I discover? (I swear, you get better news from this show and Comedy Central than 99.9% of what else is out there.) The U.S. government is being sued for copyright infringement, because they tortured inmates at Guantanamo by playing crappy music over and over again, and they never paid the artists any sort of royalties. Kind of an ingenious way to stop torture, I guess, but I gotta say….If I had to listen to My Heart Will Go On on an endless loop, I’d confess to ANYTHING.

How about you? To what would you confess in order to get them to stop playing this song?

8 Comments

  • Linda Atkins

    July 25, 2008 at 10:23 am

    I’m not sure if I know that song, but I’d confess to ANYTHING–I would tell my deepest, darkest secrets–after four minutes of bluegrass music. We have an annual bluegrass festival here in Golden Gate Park. Whenever I’m invited to it, I said, “I’d love to, as long as they don’t play any bluegrass.” I feel pretty much the same way about reggae. (Yes, I’m know I’m not in the majority here!)

  • Jenny (your cuz)

    July 25, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    If it were rap or country I might confess, anything else I think I could tune out and hang in.

  • C

    July 26, 2008 at 7:15 am

    Urgh. I’d confess to having bought Milli Vanilli’s tape way back in high school…or that I wore baggy pants like Bobby Brown’s and danced to “Can’t Touch This”. Gah.

  • MRMacrum

    July 26, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    Anything by Barry Manilow would do for me. They wouldn’t need to even get the water ready. Threaten me with some Barry Manilow and i would tell em anything they wanted.

    I am with you. Even trying to consider waterboarding anything but a type of torture is ridiculous. It’s torture.