and finally...

[electricland]

long interview by Doug Saunders (whom I want to marry -- can anyone arrange this for me, please?) with Michael Ignatieff (whose books I really have to read -- next week's library run maybe). The Globe's Review section was certainly packing a punch this weekend...

'Everything I've said and believed since I was 18 is on the line'

"We absolutely are at the tipping point," he says, his voice rising. "You can't do an occupation in the name of human rights and then use it to violate human rights, and hope to conserve any legitimacy.

"I cannot tell you how depressing this is, and how urgent it is for this to be a moment of truth for United States forces. Because it is much worse than just Iraq. It is a global detention problem, and they have messed with it, and they didn't listen to people about Guantanamo Bay, and now they are hung with the consequences of believing they can be judge and jury in their own case. It is a disaster."