I'm really going to get off this hobby horse at some point, really I am.

But this latest excuse for the inexcusable....

So she was having an affair. And that justifies what, exactly?

My friend gabbicus was relating to me last night how someone had cited my post to her, arguing that it's the Saudi's land, the Saudi's law, the Saudi's right to do as they please.

Once again, I call bullshit. Think that one through. Really think it through, and if you can still stand by it, think it through again. Because it is, honesty, the same as excusing the decapitation of Daniel Pearl because of some lunatic fringe's radical interpretation of Islam; it's the same as saying, well, it was perfectly fine to take land from fill_in_the_blank ethnic minority's land, or to deny rights to people on the basis of race and religion.

Yes, it's the law of the land in Saudi Arabia.

Doesn't mean it's a good law. Doesn't mean it's a just law. And those who claim that, "well, it's the law," ignore the possibility that some laws, maybe, just maybe, might be bad ones, or even -- gasp! -- vile, reprehensible, and evil laws.

Not like there's ever been any (make sure you actually READ this one, it's a PEACH. Bastards.) of those.

Happier post to come later today, I'm sure.

Well, reasonably sure. It's early yet.