Drill happy

On the way to church yesterday I passed a billboard advertising Lowes Hardware Center and the fact that they had drills for sale. There was a picture of a drill with a candy cane for a bit. It looked so festive.

I had recently finished a book called "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins. During his time in Iraq he described finding bodies with drill holes in it. He talked about allegations that prisoners were being tortured with hand drills, a method used by some Shia dominated police forces against Sunni prisoners. 

Knowing that fact sort of changed the way I viewed the Lowes billboard.