Amidst all the swirling controversy and scandal regarding the recent allegations that American soldiers have been abusing their Iraqi prisoners by several imaginative and rather unpleasant methods comes the report that those abuses include the charge of enforced sleep deprivation. And not just any old sleep deprivation, mind you, but sleep deprivation IN STEREO.
It seems that some of the fine American captors in question have been purposely keeping Iraqi prisoners awake for days at a time, using, of course, the time honored tradition of continuously blasting music at eardrum vaporizing levels — a clear violation of the standards set down in the Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of prisoners. But the best part is, these particular American soldiers are not just reprehensible jackasses, they are reprehensible jackasses who believe themselves to be clever. The song they are using?
“No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn” by The Beastie Boys.
I wonder how it makes Ad-Rock, MCA, and Mike D feel to know that the art they created…is being used as an instrument of human torture.
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Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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