The Rights of the Detained

Unprompted, he chose to speak about the law and about the legal rights of detainees. The words he chose were thinly veiled threats. Corporate CEOs, he said, will tell their law firms to choose between representing terrorists or representing them.

Here we have the government, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, taking to the airwaves and warning law firms to be careful about whom they choose to represent. Warning them to think twice about whether they want to lose the clients who pay the bills. Asking them how long they think they can survive after the government has encouraged their corporate clients to leave.

Make no mistake. That is what he was saying. That is what he was calling for.

Unabashed brownshirt thuggery.

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The Letters You Have

They were playing Scrabble. She was saying something about how she almost had a great word, as in she was missing some of the letters. He was a Scrabble snob, and he laughed.

Well you know what they say, he said, You play with the letters you have and not with the letters you want.

She laughed and looked up at him with that sparkle that's always in her eyes.

I know. I never did like that rule!

And with that, she put his snobbery to shame.

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