Life, Art

It's no news that life imitates art. Lousy art, it seems, is imitated by idiots, slavishly and often catastrophically.

24 is a television show popular with Bushies in which Kiefer Sutherland occasionally manages to prevent the Universe from being destroyed by torturing some hapless Muslim. In 24's World always has a ticking time bomb that only Jack (the KS character) can find and dispose of. I've only watched one episode, but regular viewers assure me my synopsis is correct.

Interestingly enough, the show was apparently the inspiration for the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld torture program, which, unlike Jack Bauer's, never managed to uncover even one ticking bomb, but did result in the torture of hundreds, dozens of them tortured to death or insanity.

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