IDIOCY WATCH "WHERE ARE THEY NOW?" REPORT: Arundhati Roy is spending a night in jail for saying bad things about the Indian Supreme Court. The AP piece adds:

A two-judge panel said she was guilty of "scandalizing it and lowering its dignity through her statements." It said freedom of speech does not grant anyone license to do that.

Roy faced up to six months in prison for contempt. The court said that in sentencing her to one day, it was "showing magnanimity of law by keeping in mind that the respondent is a woman."

You might remember Roy from her appearance in the TNR Idiocy Watch with these comments:

But who is Osama bin Laden really? Let me rephrase that. What is Osama bin Laden? He's America's family secret. He is the American president's dark doppelgänger. The savage twin of all that purports to be beautiful and civilised. He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy... Its marauding multinationals who are taking over the air we breathe, the ground we stand on, the water we drink, the thoughts we think. Now that the family secret has been spilled, the twins are blurring into one another and gradually becoming interchangeable.

She actually had the honor of appearing twice there. And her brother is goalie for the hated Avalanche.