Ted Rall - Saturday February 16, 2008 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Antonin Scalia may be a supreme court justice, but he says "so-called torture" is a - OK. "Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution?" -BBC interview. Physical violence, says America's bare-knuckled jurist, falls under the "need to know" doctrine. Where's the good stapler? I need to know! Wap! Scalia asks his colleagues to elaborate upon his new lean and mean constitution. How close does the threat have to be? And how severe can the infliction of pain be? So-called torture study group. Dunno. Hard to say. Next: Scalia goes meta! Wrong answer! I need to know! Wap!

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