Thursday, October 19, 2006

This, horrific as it is, speaks for itself

In the current issue of Harper's, Ken Silverstein has a feature called "The Kids Are Far Right," about the American conservative student movement. Silverstein attended the banquet of the National Conservative Student Conference, and across the table from him, a young man from Alabama described an alleged late-term abortion procedure in which the doctor delivers the fetus intact, then drives a knitting needle-like object into its skull. The young man then talked about how he wished he could rescue these fetuses.

Seated next to the author was another young man, this one from Oregon, who described how he and his friends like to have fun--bunny bashing. The kids borrow someone's pickup truck and take along some cudgels. When a jackrabbit freezes in the truck's high beams, someone hops out of the truck and bludgeons it to death. They then take the rabbit's head off and impale it onto the truck's antenna, leaving it for the truck's owner to find in the morning.