Many lesbians and their organizations promoted that theory and some branches of the women's spirituality movement (read just another religion) did so but feminists activists never accepted it as a credible theory. It is true that some feminist women who were not very active in the feminist activities believed it. But women who actually organized with and for women, were generally astounded at the savage infighting and trashing between women.

Flo Kennedy who later killed herself said: All those years lying under shit and you do not smell good when you are uncovered" I myself was always grateful women were not murdered at the NOW conventions.

I am unaware of any organizing that Barbara Ehrenreich performed in feminist organizations so perhaps her views of women as "superior beings" that she claims were stressed by females photographed[ as torturers came from her activities as a socialist. But my goodness, hasn't she heard of slavery? Here is news for you Barb, white women were OK with it and made the refreshments for the lynching parties. Morally superior sex my ass.

My kind of feminist theory teaches that women are oppressed by male dominated and perpetuated institutions which need to be changed to include all of the governed. The ideas and institutionalizing of diversity and inclusiveness it is believed will lead to deeper reforms. Also, that the effects of oppression are crippling and long-lasting. The hope is that after women are assimilated for several generations we will get a more accurate picture of actual gender differences. It is impossible to define actual gender differences as long as discrimination and sex role stereotypes affect the opportunities for human development

OK after about an hour of thought the anger has started - what is feminist about an article ignoring the male central command who gave orders to remove control from Karpinski in order to trash feminists?

The Taguba report states there was rebellion by Karpinski and confusion when military intelligence took away her control of Abu Gahaid. But the last panel investigated at Warner's hearings Sanchez, Miller, Roberts, etc., DENIED that it even happened - said Karpinski NEVER complained so you know they are a lying bunch of torture approvers.

No mention in E's article that these are the first full generation of women in quasi combat service, they are in an explicitly woman hating female slave status country - scared shi---ss about being captured with good reason and eager to please the boys NONE OF WHICH EXCUSES ENGLUND and the other two females.

Why doesn't the article explain the dynamics and the conflict of being in that position and under orders from the people who use torture and then blame those they order to actually do it?

Like: Tenet at the CIA, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen Cambone, Commander of Coalition Forces Sanchez who approved specific tortures (whom they are relieving of duty while praising his "outstanding service" - Sanchez tried to blame it all on Karpinski by limiting Taguba's investigation to her performance and that of the MP - eliminating any investigation of military intelligence personnel but Taguba wrote a memo saying they also should be investigated and the shit hit the fan for Sanchez);

Also Major General Geoffrey Miller, formerly the commandant at Guantanamo, Cuba, Military Intelligence Brigade Commander, Colonel Thomas M Pappas and Commander of Joint Interrogation and Debriefing, Lt Col. Steve Jordan. They should all be court marshaled as the ones who were responsible but who wants to bet on that possibility.

That is why while there is no excuse for the women who participated in the torture, it is disgusting to watch those men who instigated it and approved it and gave the orders being allowed to blame the lowest in rank while the big boys aforementioned get the golden stars of glory.

What about those males whispering, good job-keep softening them up - you are saving lives?

Feminist analysis in the anti-violence movement spent a lot of time explaining the mentality of those victims who were in fear and terror because they did not act "rationally" by conventional standards. They acted in ways designed not to offend those who had the power to rape and beat them. These are not excuses. The analysis is helpful for the provision of solutions that do not scapegoat the victims.

Where is the call for a look at the use of torture and how the male dominated intelligence industry has used torture and violence and rape as a normal method of interrogation since this country is founded?

There is an excellent article on the use of torture and the questions that this country should be dealing with in, The New York Times Magazine, may 2, 2004. I think the questions raised on page 86 are actually more of a feminist analysis then those in E's article.

What Abu Ghraib Taught Me
By Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet
May 20, 2004

Even those people we might have thought were impervious to shame, like the secretary of Defense, admit that the photos of abuse in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison turned their stomachs.

The photos did something else to me, as a feminist: They broke my heart. I had no illusions about the U.S. mission in Iraq – whatever exactly it is – but it turns out that I did have some illusions about women.

Of the seven U.S. soldiers now charged with sickening forms of abuse in Abu Ghraib, three are women: Spc. Megan Ambuhl, Pfc. Lynndie England and Spc. Sabrina Harman.

It was Harman we saw smiling an impish little smile and giving the thumbs-up sign from behind a pile of hooded, naked Iraqi men – as if to say, "Hi Mom, here I am in Abu Ghraib!" It was England we saw with a naked Iraqi man on a leash. If you were doing PR for Al Qaeda, you couldn't have staged a better picture to galvanize misogynist Islamic fundamentalists around the world.

Here, in these photos from Abu Ghraib, you have everything that the Islamic fundamentalists believe characterizes Western culture, all nicely arranged in one hideous image – imperial arrogance, sexual depravity ... and gender equality.

Maybe I shouldn't have been so shocked. We know that good people can do terrible things under the right circumstances. This is what psychologist Stanley Milgram found in his famous experiments in the 1960s. In all likelihood, Ambuhl, England and Harman are not congenitally evil people. They are working-class women who wanted an education and knew that the military could be a stepping-stone in that direction. Once they had joined, they wanted to fit in.

And I also shouldn't be surprised because I never believed that women were innately gentler and less aggressive than men. Like most feminists, I have supported full opportunity for women within the military – 1) because I knew women could fight, and 2) because the military is one of the few options around for low-income young people.

Although I opposed the 1991 Persian Gulf War, I was proud of our servicewomen and delighted that their presence irked their Saudi hosts. Secretly, I hoped that the presence of women would over time change the military, making it more respectful of other people and cultures, more capable of genuine peacekeeping. That's what I thought, but I don't think that anymore.

A certain kind of feminism, or perhaps I should say a certain kind of feminist naivetι, died in Abu Ghraib. It was a feminism that saw men as the perpetual perpetrators, women as the perpetual victims and male sexual violence against women as the root of all injustice. Rape has repeatedly been an instrument of war and, to some feminists, it was beginning to look as if war was an extension of rape. There seemed to be at least some evidence that male sexual sadism was connected to our species' tragic propensity for violence. That was before we had seen female sexual sadism in action.

But it's not just the theory of this naive feminism that was wrong. So was its strategy and vision for change. That strategy and vision rested on the assumption, implicit or stated outright, that women were morally superior to men. We had a lot of debates over whether it was biology or conditioning that gave women the moral edge – or simply the experience of being a woman in a sexist culture. But the assumption of superiority, or at least a lesser inclination toward cruelty and violence, was more or less beyond debate. After all, women do most of the caring work in our culture, and in polls are consistently less inclined toward war than men.

I'm not the only one wrestling with that assumption today. Mary Jo Melone, a columnist for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, wrote on May 7: "I can't get that picture of England [pointing at a hooded Iraqi man's genitals] out of my head because this is not how women are expected to behave. Feminism taught me 30 years ago that not only had women gotten a raw deal from men, we were morally superior to them."

If that assumption had been accurate, then all we would have had to do to make the world a better place – kinder, less violent, more just – would have been to assimilate into what had been, for so many centuries, the world of men. We would fight so that women could become the generals, CEOs, senators, professors and opinion-makers – and that was really the only fight we had to undertake. Because once they gained power and authority, once they had achieved a critical mass within the institutions of society, women would naturally work for change. That's what we thought, even if we thought it unconsciously – and it's just not true. Women can do the unthinkable.

You can't even argue, in the case of Abu Ghraib, that the problem was that there just weren't enough women in the military hierarchy to stop the abuses. The prison was directed by a woman, Gen. Janis Karpinski. The top U.S. intelligence officer in Iraq, who also was responsible for reviewing the status of detainees before their release, was Major Gen. Barbara Fast. And the U.S. official ultimately responsible for managing the occupation of Iraq since October was Condoleezza Rice. Like Donald H. Rumsfeld, she ignored repeated reports of abuse and torture until the undeniable photographic evidence emerged.

What we have learned from Abu Ghraib, once and for all, is that a uterus is not a substitute for a conscience. This doesn't mean gender equality isn't worth fighting for for its own sake. It is. If we believe in democracy, then we believe in a woman's right to do and achieve whatever men can do and achieve, even the bad things. It's just that gender equality cannot, all alone, bring about a just and peaceful world.

In fact, we have to realize, in all humility, that the kind of feminism based on an assumption of female moral superiority is not only naive; it also is a lazy and self-indulgent form of feminism. Self-indulgent because it assumes that a victory for a woman – a promotion, a college degree, the right to serve alongside men in the military – is by its very nature a victory for all of humanity. And lazy because it assumes that we have only one struggle – the struggle for gender equality – when in fact we have many more.

The struggles for peace and social justice and against imperialist and racist arrogance, cannot, I am truly sorry to say, be folded into the struggle for gender equality.

What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them, only by consciously deciding to fight for change. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no – not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself.

In short, we need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

To cite an old, and far from naive, feminist saying: "If you think equality is the goal, your standards are too low." It is not enough to be equal to men, when the men are acting like beasts. It is not enough to assimilate. We need to create a world worth assimilating into.

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author, most recently, of "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America." This article was first published in the Sunday Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times.

Worry About Islamic Courts in CanadaPosted by Robert Klein Engler
Saturday, May 01, 2004
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Estimates about the number of Muslims living in Canada range from 600,000 to about a million. Because of Canada's liberal immigration policy, many more Muslims arrive each year. Yet, just as in Europe, Muslims in Canada are not assimilating. Instead, they prefer their own culture and values to that of the West. The most recent example of this lack of assimilation is the institution of Muslim courts in the province of Ontario.

The origin of these Islamic courts lies in a 1991 Ontario law that permits arbitration according to religious principles. Although these Islamic courts do not deal with criminal matters, their existence raises questions about the desire of Muslims to assimilate to Western culture and values, and especially about the rights of woman.

According to an article in the Washington Post (April 28, 2004), DeNeen L. Brown writes, ''thousands of ...Muslims, taking advantage of a provision of the law in the province of Ontario, can now decide some civil disputes under sharia, (Islamic law based in the Koran) including family disagreements and inheritance, business and divorce issues, using tribunals that include imams, Muslim elders and lawyers. While it is less than full implementation of sharia, local leaders consider it a significant step.''

If local Muslim leaders consider these Islamic courts a significant step, then many women in Canada do not. These women take issue with a difficult passage in the Koran that states: ''Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has made one of them to excel the other, and because they spend (to support them) from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard (Surah 4:34).'' Some women interpret this passage to mean that in Muslim societies guided by Islamic law, women are second class citizens.

Viewing the establishment of Islamic courts in Canada as a threat to woman, Haydar Ketabchi writes, ''The threat of implementing Islamic courts in Canada under the pretext of 'religious freedom,' 'tolerance' and 'cultural sensitivity' must be taken seriously and exposed as the Islamist's most recent organized attempt to institutionalize male domination, gender apartheid, xenophobia, and Islamic law around the world. Under the aegis of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice (IICJ), Islamists have organized to impede women's rights and individual liberties.''

The political efforts of Islam in the West ought to be resisted, especially in Canada. Because of Canada's federalist structure, one can imagine in the future not only a French speaking province of Canada, but an Arabic speaking one as well. That can hardly be in the interest of the U. S. or Canada, especially in a time of war. Mohsen Ebrahimi argues this point and writes, ''The struggle to launch Islamic tribunals in Canada, like similar efforts to force Hijab in public institutions in France, is not merely a cultural effort to pursue cultural rights. Both the aims of and the forces behind these efforts are political. These attempts are part and parcel of one of the most reactionary global phenomena of recent history, i.e., the movement of political Islam.''

Meanwhile in Iraq, Robert Reid writing for the Associated Press (February 18, 2004) states that, ''Iraq's U.S. administrator, Paul Bremer, has vowed to block any move by Iraqi leaders to make Islamic law the backbone of an interim constitution, which women's groups fear could threaten their rights.''

Reid continues, ''Iraqi women's groups fear that (the institution of Islamic law) could cost them the rights they hold under Iraq's longtime secular system, especially in such areas as divorce, child support and inheritance.'' How ironic, that 5,000 miles away women will be treated better than they are just a few hundred miles across the U.S. border. Given the recent events in Ontario, I suspect there is an iman somewhere, telling his followers that when it comes time to stone the liberals in Canada, they will give him the quarry.

Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago and is an adjunct professor at Roosevelt University. His book, ''A Winter of Words'' about the ethnic cleansing at Daley College, is available from amazon.com.

The video of the beheading

Tolerate the abuse of animals. Sentence them to 9 months for raping 9 year old girls (See The Janesville Gazette; May 7 2004; page 1B; Assault brings Sentence), tolerate child abuse within the family by refusing to remove abused children or adequately supervise foster homes.

Venerate a macho sports culture which routinely degrades Native Americans and women.

Jail minorities for non violent crimes at a ratio of 4 to 1 Caucasian - tolerate unquestioningly any kind of police abuse; find acceptable and entertaining TV COPS showing "authority" that demeans and humiliates low working class and unemployed citizens.

It seems there are always jobs and positions of authority for the bullies and sadists amongst us at the expense of all the rest of us.

Then we, especially the politicians and the media, act surprised and shocked when they see pictures of the bullies acting out the results of a culture that tolerates and admires violence - a culture that tolerates abuse of "THE OTHER", the minority, the helpless and dependent, those who are not US.

I get the first 10 cable channels for 10 dollars a month because I watch C-Span - I especially wanted to watch the torture hearings. I am glad the torture WE ALWAYS DO IN ALL PRISONS, here AND there; that we are so proficient at ignoring, has finally been exposed in a way that causes much PR damage to the established order.

Now they will have to change at least the rules of "interrogation".

In Viet Nam women about to be captured routinely put razor blades in their vaginas because gang rape before death was a certainty. NO Viet Cong or innocent peasant ever survived "interrogation" then - and what we did in Nicaragua and South America is still hidden. And they all act so shocked now that there are pictures. They knew and we all know what is going on in our jails and prisons but some of us are helpless to change things and many call it, as Rush Limbaugh did last week: just having a little fun, blowing off steam, having a tailgate party.

So I am very interested in the institutional change that will come from this exposure - will it just be some politically motivated window dressing, will it drive torture underground or will it end torture as a standard technique of interrogation by the CIA and their ilk? Will the progressive people in this country draw the similarities to the imprisoned innocent here? And draw the similarities to the conditions of confinement in the U.S.?

Torture doesn't work to get information anyway - money and drugs are what works and what got us Saddam.

Those who call for the resignation of Rumsfeld are those who never supported this war and smell political opportunity the way sharks smell blood in the water. CALLING FOR THE RESIGNATION OF RUMSFELD IS A DIVERSION FROM WHERE THEY DO NOT WANT OUR ATTENTION FOCUSED. People who want to win the war on terror and defeat the patriarchy of the Moslem brotherhood.

CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, GEORGE J. TENET. HE IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE INTERROGATORS (in terror gators). HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SPREAD OF U.S. TERROR.

AND CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR INTELLIGENCE, STEPHEN CAMBONE;
AND Major General Geoffrey Miller, formerly the commandant at Guantanamo, Cuba;
and MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE COMMANDER, COLONEL THOMAS M PAPPAS;
AND HEAD OF JOINT INTERROGATION AND DEBRIEFING, LT COL. STEVE JORDAN.

Tenet failed to predict the Cole bombing, the 1998 Indian nuclear tests, 9/11, the reality of WMD and the various bombings of embassies around the world. He probably is behind the movement to fire Rumsfeld in order to deflect attention from his own dirty record.

Fire Tenet, Cambone, Miller, Pappas and Jordan

Pass It On

No, Rumsfeld is not the problem here unless you really do not care about torture and just want to use the issue to get rid of bush. But Rumsfeld has an undersecretary in charge of military intelligence who ought to be fired. He was testifying yesterday in the congressional hearings as to how no one did anything wrong. Pappas and Jordan are his boys. They are the ones who took the command of the interrogation unit away from Kaprinski.

CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE (whose name I do not know yet) and the MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BRIGADE COMMANDER, COLONEL THOMAS M PAPPAS AND COMMANDER OF JOINT INTERROGATION AND DEBRIEFING, LT COL. STEVE JORDAN.

Tenet failed to predict the Cole bombing, the 1998 Indian nuclear tests, 9/11, the reality of WMD and the various bombings of embassies around the world. He probably is behind the movement to fire Rumsfeld in order to deflect attention from his own dirty record.

Fire Tenet, Pappas and Jordan.

Organic" Crops Raised with Pesticides?

The USDA has now stated that as long as the farmer and the organic
certifier don't know the specific ingredients of the pesticides applied
to the "organic" plants, the crops can be sold as "organic". To make
matters worse, it is not required by law for pesticide companies to list
the ingredients on their products (it's considered proprietary
information), so the farmers rarely know what the specific ingredients are.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm#action

Organic" Dairy Cows Injected with Antibiotics and Synthetic Hormones?

The USDA has announced that individual cows can be treated with any kind of drug at any time, including synthetic growth hormones, but milk can only be sold from that cow 12 months after that treatment. The problem with this directive is that it opens up the door for split operation factory style dairy farms, whereby organic and non-organic dairy operations are carried out simultaneously, and hundreds if not thousands of "organic" dairy cows are kept in intensive confinement. Not only are industrial sized dairy farms bad for the environment, but they inevitably give rise to sick cows who have to be treated with drugs. Of course many of these drugs build up in the body fat and are released in the milk and meat from these animals.. If this new directive is allowed to stand, organic milk could potentially contain residues of drugs and hormones.

Particle no-show pans former find
Physicists unbowed as fail to detect dark matter.
6 May 2004
GEOFF BRUMFIEL

If a dark matter particle strikes the detector, it would cause it to ring like a bell.
© Fermilab

The most powerful search yet for the Universe's missing matter has come up empty handed, contradicting an earlier study that claimed to have seen new particles.

Researchers from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II (CDMSII) say they are pleased with their first results, which show that their detector is working and set new constraints on how the so-far undetected matter can behave, if it exists.

For decades, physicists and astronomers have known that conventional particles of the type that make up atoms, stars and people only account for a tiny fraction of the Universe's mass. The rest of the mass is referred to as dark matter, as its identity is unknown. It is thought to come from a variety of heavy particles that rarely interact with regular matter and can pass through conventional objects unseen.

CDMSII has been looking for a type of theoretical particles called weakly interactive massive particles, or WIMPs. If they are detected, this would not only shed light on the mystery of dark matter, but would also be good evidence for supersymmetry, a theory of physics that goes beyond today's standard model.

Chilled out

The new detector is four times more sensitive than any previous experiment. To shield it from high-energy particles from outer space, the machine is based 700 metres underground in an abandoned iron mine in Soudan, Minnesota. The detector is also chilled to within a tenth of a degree of absolute zero to reduce vibrations from surrounding molecules.

The detector itself consists of sensors attached to six germanium and silicon crystals. If a particle strikes one of the crystals, it causes the crystal to ring like a bell, and the sensors detect the vibrations.

However since it started running in November last year, the detector has not seen a single WIMP. The negative result puts an upper limit on the number of interactions that can be occurring over a certain period of time, says Harry Nelson, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He presented the results at the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, on 3 May.

Elusive effect

That effectively contradicts the findings of DAMA, a less sensitive experiment based at the National Laboratory of Gran Sasso, Italy, that has been collecting data since 1996. Researchers there thought they might have detected WIMPs. And they saw more particles in the summer than in the winter, an effect that could have been caused by the Earth travelling with or against the flow of cosmic dark particles.

But Nelson says that if those events were real, then the more sensitive CDMSII should have seen 50 events for each one detected by DAMA. "If the particles had been present, we are sure we would have seen them," he says.

Other results have cast doubt on DAMA's finding, but the data from CDMSII are likely to be seen as conclusive evidence that the Italian experiment did not spot a new particle. "[DAMA's finding] is essentially dead," says Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical astrophysicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Physicists with the CDMSII experiment say they will now add another 24 crystals to the detector, increasing its sensitivity tenfold. If they still fail to find something, then theorists who believe in supersymmetry may have to rethink their ideas. "CDMSII isn't exerting an annoying pressure on theorists yet," says Nelson. "But they're starting to feel it."

"Conservative Web site claims hardcore pornography from U.S. is being used as anti-American propaganda in Arab countries.
From WorldNetDaily:
"Graphic photos appearing on Arabic websites of U.S. servicemen raping and sexually abusing Iraqi women were actually taken from American and Hungarian pornography sites." ...Just another day in the 21st century, it seems. (via Fleshbot) (NSFW, as if you need to be told)

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Sea Launch successfully put a 5-ton television satellite into orbit yesterday from a 400-foot long mobile platform in the central Pacific Ocean. It was the 12th successful launch for the firm (run by a consortium that includes Boeing and Energia), with the equatorial position in the mid-Pacific allowing the rocket to carry a heavier payload to orbit with less fuel.

Slowly but surely, spaceflight is becoming commercialized even as the U.S. has renewed efforts to militarize it.

posted by QuestionableSwami at 9:19 PM PST - 12 comments"

SciTech Of The Day - Venus bugs - "Venus might once have been a potential breeding ground for life, but at some point a runaway greenhouse effect dried the planet out. A few scientists have argued that if Venus's climate change was slow enough for life to adapt, microbes could survive there today, living in acidic clouds at altitudes of about 50 kilometers. The temperature there is only about 50 to 70 °C - conditions some terrestrial microbes can endure."

Also go to the bottom of my blog on this page- See the green box? Click on the blog moon and then click on "The Ecological Blog" (my favorite blog). The depth of the postings there are of the highest quality and especially interesting to people who want/need social change. I put Jon's site on the Places Moon because, at that time, his site was not really a blog but now it is. Nevertheless, you have to go to the Places Moon and you will find Jon's site under ART. Jon recomends you go to Metafilter for your news reports.

NOW HERE BELOW IS A SELECTION FROM THE FABULOUS RICHARD KHAN'S ECOLOGICAL WEBSITE

The Not So Sweet Jayson Williams

Why does the manslaugher acquittal of former NBA basketball star Jayson Williams merit a vegan blog posting? Perhaps it doesn't, but there is an angle to this story which has been surpressed both by the media and the court -- information that may have gone a long way to convicting this guy for drunkenly shooting his limo driver in the chest with a shot gun.

Six month prior to this incident, another drunken shooting was conducted by Williams...this time on his attack dog, Zeus:

What Hunterdon County prosecutors referred to as the "dog incident" allegedly occurred in August 2002, just six months before Christofi was fatally shot at the sprawling Hunterdon County estate Williams named "Who Knew?"

Hunterdon County Assistant Prosecutor Katharine Errickson said a Rottweiler named Zeus, a trained attack dog that responded to German commands, was killed on Aug. 8 or 9, between 2 and 3 a.m. at Williams` Alexandria Township home, according to a sworn statement by Dwayne Schintzius, a former University of Florida basketball star who played for the Nets from 1994 to 1995.

Schintzius, who was living with Williams and training with him in an attempt to make a comeback in the NBA, had returned to Williams` house after a night of drinking at the Mountainview Chalet with Williams and friend Chris Duckery. Williams and friends also dined at the same upscale Union Township restaurant Feb. 14, 2002, the night Christofi was killed.

Schintzius said he bet Williams $100 that he could drag the Rottweiler outside the house without being attacked. They agreed, and Schintzius grabbed the dog by its hind legs and dragged it out of the front door.

Williams, whose playful demeanor immediately turned serious, went upstairs, Errickson said.

"When the defendant returns, he doesn`t return with $100; he returns with a shotgun," Errickson said.

Using Schintzius` words, Errickson said Williams allegedly "blasted one round into the side of Zeus and a second round into Zeus` head, almost decapitating him." Williams then loaded two more rounds into his shotgun, aimed it at Schintzius and said, "Shinbone, get this f---ing dog off my porch or you`re next," Errickson said.

Schintzius and Duckery buried the animal in the yard, the assistant prosecutor said.
The judge blocked this testimony because it would be "highly predjudicial and inflammatory" -- I'll say.

But whether or not such evidence should have been allowed into the court room, it certainly should be fair game for the media covering this story. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. In large part this must be because Jayson Williams was always a media darling while an NBA player, a guy who was infamous for going out of his way to give journalists every interview and photo opp they demanded and for always being personable and grateful for their attention. Friends obviously don't forget. For I have since even heard 15 minute interviews with Williams on NPR of all places in which he was thrown only softball questions and no one ever raises what happened to his dog Zeus.