>>Waterboarding seems so unsophisticated compared to the torturing of a metaphor to include houses of cards, basketball courts, muppets, Shakespeare and aristocrats seizing the playground.
LOL, glad you enjoyed it! Though perhaps the reference was more to Faulkner than to Shakespeare... ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1