This American Life - #310, Habeas Schmabeas
This American Life, if you haven't heard it yet, is the best radio show to come along in quite some time. I mean, that's not necessarily saying much. With Sirius and the Internet and, well, you know, television too, radio has seemed like a dead format to a lot of people for a long time. So let me put it another way: I listen to This American Life as religiously as I watch The Daily Show.
Though I often miss it because I'm busy, asleep, or crazy on Sundays. It's one of my days off. So I do what I want. I don't watch the clock. But today I've been listening to the one I missed this weeked, Habeas Schmabeas, an hour long special about the Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
I don't want to ruin it, but it's even worse than you thought it was. Aside from the shocking expose style stuff you might expect about the abortions of justice, there are long interviews with prisoners that have been released.
Everyone should hear this. (You need realplayer.)
I'm not looking forward to our children asking us "Why didn't you do anything?" when they learn about this war in history class 20 years from now.
No kidding. It's funny becuase, we are all cynical and tell ourselves that this administration is liars and evil, but we are kind of placating ourselves. And when you listen to somthing like this, you just are filled with a kind of non-cynical shock. A real sense of outrage. I don't want the awnser to my kids to be "well, nothing really". So what do we do?
i have an equally big crush on Ira Glass.