Stupidity around the world:

• In China: the government-sponsored press cheers the destruction of the twin towers.
• In Spain: drunk rapists get their sentences reduced because they were drunk.
• In Afghanistan: the ledger of Taliban crimes against human decency mounts: to arbitrary arrests, brutal executions, virtual enslavement of women and ethnic cleansing we may now add molded formica wood-grain, and tacky, mirror-crusted blue-green minarets