perplexing quotes of the week

“They’re worried about a loss of dexterity”

Apparently conjurors are worthy of concern.

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has warned Labour MPs not to “get into a war”

What room is there for satire when the turncoat toad drops one like that on us? The only way the man could get more ridiculous is if he’d been reshuffled to Health Secretary.

US State Department legal adviser John Bellinger on why Guantanamo Bay is now just a nice holiday resort for naughty foreign kids. A bit like bratcamp, really:

“We now have more rigorous laws, more rigorous procedures, more rigorous training and more rigorous monitoring mechanisms.”

Does he mean the waterboarding is now carried out by more experienced professionals? They have started watching 24/7 for any deviation from the dress code? That it is possible to be “more rigorous”, any more than it is possible to be “more American” or “more dead”? Well I ain’t buyin’ dat, no sir, not till i become more braindead.