Is there a meta-search engine for used CDs and DVDs?

I suspect that most or all of the people reading this page are aware of Bookfinder (http://www.bookfinder.com), which is a "meta-search engine" for used books. That is, you enter a search on Bookfinder, and it sends out requests to dozens of used book services, including individual stores like Barnes and Noble (http://www.bn.com) or Powells (http://www.powells.com), consolidators like Advanced Book Exchange (http://www.abebooks.com), and person-to-person sale sites like eBay (http://www.ebay.com) and Half (http://www.half.com). Bookfinder is a near-miracle, an indispensible tool for a book addict like me.

I'm wondering, though, if there are similar services for music CDs and for DVDs. Any suggestions, anyone?

Sy Hersh: My current hero

The forthcoming New Yorker contains an article entitled The Gray Zone. Here's how it begins:

The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of élite combat units, and hurt America’s prospects in the war on terror.

Fafblog explains it all to you

Fafblog. There's nothing quite like it.

So what we want to do is start turning the occupation away from "nation-building" and back towards the "nation-wrecking" that was working out so well for us in the beginning. Do not sit around as targets for guerilla attacks while guarding supply convoys! Use air strikes on major civilian and military infrastructure. "But Giblets how will the Iraqis ever form a free and sovereign state" you say because you are stupid. They won't - that is the point! If you bomb them enough they will never recover from their bombings and nothing like a state will ever exist in Iraq. And if a state can't exist in Iraq it can't sponsor terror. Your problems are solved!

In fact Giblets's "bomb and re-bomb" strategy is so simple it can be used on lots of countries at once. Just skip the occupation and do multiple rounds of nation-wrecking in places like Iraq, Iran, and Syria. It is so simple only a child could understand it!

Giblets also has a brilliant solution for "How To Resolve The Standoff With North Korea" (hint: it starts with "n" and ends with "uclear bombardment").

I'm pretty sure I've read all of that before, except from people who at least pretended to be serious. It's better the Fafblog way.

I should be in bed, but Iraq calls to me

Josh Marshall tonight points out that Sy Hersh's New Yorker article (cited yesterday) and a major article in Newsweek by John Barry, Michael Hirsh, and Michael Isikoff converge, from apparently independent sources, on this conclusion about Abu Ghraib: The US set up an official black ops program to perform torture on suspected terrorists and then expanded that program onto Iraqi detainees.

Once you've officially set up a policy of torturing The Worst, it's a path of very small steps to start treating everyone in sight as The Worst. This is one of the reasons that civilized nations don't torture.

Of course, the Current US Occupying Force in the Oval Office has been deliberately blurring the line between "terrorists" and "Iraqis" since September 11th, 2001, and they've been handsomely rewarded for that.

Oh, and we're pulling troops from South Korea to fight in Iraq. Way to go, Rumsfeld!