links 2/10/08
Feb 10th, 2008 by jeremy
- Polaroid stops making polaroids
- Flinstones-looking motorcycles
- Optical illusions
- Food porn of the day, Tuscan white bean stew
- Spray-on tans gone wild
- Tentative deal reached in Writer’s strike
- Obama wins in Louisiana, Washington and Nebraska yesterday for Dems. Huckabee takes Kansas and Louisiana for Republicans
- Photographic evidence in one county for Clinton and Obama
- Done by an artist or an ape? I only got 67% right
- How are woman treated in Iraq under the new government?
The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture. The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other “rules” that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce.“Fear, fear is always there,” says 30-year-old Safana, an artist and university professor. “We don’t know who to be afraid of. Maybe it’s a friend or a student you teach. There is no break, no security. I don’t know who to be afraid of.”
After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Sawsan says, the situation was “the best.” But now, she says, it’s “the worst.”
“We thought there would be freedom and democracy and women would have their rights. But all the things we were promised have not come true. There is only fear and horror.”…
