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• Artist Steve Powers Is Waterboarding at Coney Island

  Step right up and catch a glimpse of Coney Island's "Waterboard Thrill Ride." Artist Steve Powers has created an installation at New York City's Coney Island beach and amusement park depicting the act of waterboarding on dummies in a freak show cage... Read More... Posted Aug 18 2008, 12:38 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with no comments Filed under: torture porn, art, brooklyn, coney island, amusement parks, waterboarding

• Today in WTF: Waterboarding Ride At Coney Island

  Would you take the "Waterboarding Thrill Ride" at Coney? What about if we gave you a dollar? What if we gave you two dollars?  Not to worry (unless of course your skin is "nonwhite" and you are, for any reason, in any foreign country), you will never actually have to be subjected to what we now refer to as the Christopher Hitchens treatment. This is one "ride" that humans will never have to take... Read More... Posted Aug 07 2008, 01:08 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: torture porn, New York City, new jersey, protest, bush administration, guantanamo, coney island, ride, amusement parks

• Today in Current Events WTF

  There's a law in front of the Supreme Court designed to redefine what constitutes child pornography that may, in fact, broaden the term to include mainstream, totally non-criminal films. "Among the movies mentioned which could be affected by the new law are American Beauty, Lolita, Titanic and Traffic." Traffic? Yeah, maybe that law is too broad. Genarlow Wilson was released from prison this week after serving three years for engaging in teen sex. Boy, good thing Dawson kept screwing up with Pacey! Looks like the War on Terror really means "Al Gore and Arianna Huffington are into torture porn". Posted Nov 01 2007, 04:14 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: lawbreaking, underage-ness, torture porn