From this week's Economist: "Since the downfall of the Taliban, the Supreme Court has been controlled by hardline clerics, led by the septuagenarian Fazul Hadi Shinwari, whose office is adorned only with a Koran and a whip. He said recently that women could not become Supreme Court justices because they menstruate, rendering them unfit to handle the holy book for several days each month." Enjoy the "new" Afghanistan ("liberated" by Bush and the Feminist Majority--Bush's cheerleaders for war).