Devaluing of words

The kerfuffle over the Bush "torture memos" has me annoyed. I'm not a

big fan of enhanced interrogation, and I agree that it's contrary to the

image America has tried to project in the past. We're definitely better

off without it.



Still, some of these practices are more like fraternity hazing than

anything else, and to use a word like "torture" to describe them is not

only a vocabulary stretch, but an insult to people who've been beaten,

burned, electrocuted, whipped and