Editor’s Note: Patty DuCake has returned from North Central Ohio, with a few extra tattoos on her ass & track marks up & down her arm, but otherwise no worse for wear.
As a reporter who has covered the slums of Newport, Kentucky and the biker bars of Mansfield, Ohio, I appreciate the dangers of investigative reporting.
Both Laura Ling and Euna Lee are brave women, who were unfairly imprisoned while bringing to the American public the story of human trafficking along the North Korean/Chinese border.
Charged and convicted with the crime of illegally entering North Korean territory, these two reporters have been sentenced to twelve years of hard labor! As spoiled Americans, we might imagine “hard labor” to be washing dishes or making license plates. Wrongo. Think more along the lines of “chain gang.” Or, more likely, “sweat shop.” It’s how we get all of our low, low prices here in the States.
Patty DuCake knows irony. (It goes well with cynicism.) Anyway, these two ladies bothered to care about the enslavement of women in a particular part of Asia. And now they have been enslaved themselves. Just saying. Or, as my big fat billiards partner at Club 42 would put it, “Ain’t that a bitch, Sugar Tits?”
