Durbin's pal and prisoner abuse

JWM writes on John In Carolina about prisoner abuse in Dick Durbin's backyard:

"Illinois Democrat Senator Richard Durbin compared American servicemen and women serving at Guantanamo to Hitler's Nazis, Stalin's gulag thugs, and Pol Pot's murderers.

But I could find no criticism by Durbin of his pal, political ally and Cook Country's Democrat Sheriff, Michael F. Sheahan, who's run the notorious Cook County Jail since 1990. I used Google and Yahoo search engines. The Senator's office didn't return a phone call inquiry about Sheahan and prisoner abuse at the jail.

During the 15 years Sheahan’s run Cook County Jail, there have been numerous reports by rights groups, attorneys, and a grand jury documenting systematic prisoner abuse there, including rapes and beatings by guards."

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Would if this could get some attention in the MSM.

Accelerando

A couple of days ago, Charles Stross released his new book Accelerando on the web in several different formats, in what he calls a "marketing exercise" to determine if more people will buy the physical book from Amazon or traditional booksellers, and to see if, after a spike in downloads from his site, a spike in sales occurs.

The RIAA should be interested in an experiment like this -- but they wouldn't be.