"It was the porn that made them do it." -- I finally got around to reading this Frank Rich piece from the Sunday NYTimes last night, and it's very incisive. He rails at the hypocritical religious conservatives (like, say, our President) who lay easy blame for the Abu Ghraib torture on America's "corrupt popular culture," pointing out that these same pundits heartily embraced "The Passion of the Christ," arguably one of the most sadistic films ever made: "Mel Gibson's relentlessly violent, distinctly American take on Jesus' martyrdom is a more exact fit for what's been acted out in Abu Ghraib than the flouncings of any cheesy porn-video dominatrix." Ouch.