Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, John Steinbeck (signed)

[rich]

I've read somewheres that US forces used waterboarding in the
Phillipines during the uprisings there in the late 19th C

speaking of the Phillipines, John Sayles is having trouble finding a
publisher for a big novel about America in and around the yr 1898

On 5/26/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mancow Waterboarded (VIDEO): Conservative Radio Host Say It's Torture
>
> Erich "Mancow" Muller, a Chicago-based conservative radio host,
> recently decided to silence critics of waterboarding once and for all.
> He would undergo the procedure himself, and then he would be able to
> confidently convince others that it is not, in fact, torture.
>
> Or so he thought. Instead, Muller came out convinced.
>
> "It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke,"
> Mancow said. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your
> nose with your head back... It was instantaneous... and I don't want
> to say this: absolutely torture."
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/22/mancow-waterboarded-video_n_206906.html
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330333236804&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
>>
>