JasonFleischer's Journal: We don't hate Arabs, really!

I watched the WWE Royal Rumble on Sunday night. For those unfamiliar with it, World Wrestling Entertainment televises slapstick-ish choreographed fighting matches between large men in spandex costumes with silly theme names like "The Undertaker" and "Nature Boy". The Royal Rumble is an endurance match where 30 wrestlers enter the ring, one every 2 minutes or so, and the last person left inside the ring at the end wins. Wrestler No. 13's theme was "Arab power", his name was Muhammed Hussan (or something close to that) and he wore a kafyieh. The roughly eight wrestlers that were still in ring when he entered all immediately ganged up and kicked the living hell out him in a tight neo-Nazi like circle bash.

Also, check out this editorial from Maureen Dowd (NY Times - registration required) about the use of sex and menstrual blood to toture prisoners at the Guantanamo detention center.

Sometimes I could just cry.