Just because they’re my favorite people today, let’s review how much the Saudi government sucks. At least she didn’t turn him into a newt.

In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.

The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.

Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.

Human Rights Watch said that Ms Falih had exhausted all her chances of appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened.  Read more 

This will make sense to about two of my readers.

So every morning I turn on my browser, ITunes, and my calendar program, first thing. Some mornings, I set the ITunes to random; I’ve got about four thousand songs. The first song that came up today: ’Men in Black vs. Sandstorm.’ It’s the cheesiest dance tune ever, but as far as omens go, meaningful. Let’s hope if they do rig things today, the voting crowd will be as fired up as this song used to make the klub kidz back in the Day.  Read more