craftyindividual

Sun soakin bulges in the shade.

Marilise leguana

That's it's "a fish owl" name.

Watercolour

Heh, on the contrary they may well have had a terrible life but this the only break they've had from it ;)

Mine too, at the airport.

Pawse...Breaking Bear?

The trouble with tribbles, the revenge!

Many years ago I read an article by an Iranian gentleman that basically highlighted that torture doesn't get the answers required, it harms both the sufferer and the person inflicting pain on a deep level. This also brings to mind the prevalence of torture in the early series of "24"... a problem later addressed by the producers when they actively avoided depiction of torture. In the early Obama presidency there was a lot of (over due) contrition over the use of enhanced interrogation at Guantanamo bay. Arguements for the use of torture were often given in the context of a "ticking time bomb" or equivalent scenario that needed to be stopped in a given time limit, despite such incidents not having a real life precedent.

Also you get a sense of the terror inflicted by waterboarding.

I used to think I'd hold out well under torture until I had gastroscopy without anaesthetic. It was like being attacked by the alien facehugger. A rigid metal tube down the esophagus provoking the suffocation reflex (despite airflow to lungs) for 5mins which felt like 5 weeks. I was an absolute mess until they gave me nitrous gas for the colonoscopy, then it was relatively painless intoxication.

They really captured the shape with minimum effort