The Dish

Vick had weed? Really?

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Good news for those committed to ending America’s use of torture as an official CIA policy. A new blog, American Torture, is now dedicated to covering the issue with the urgency and timeliness it demands. This story is not over – and probably won’t be until Bush leaves office. But the need for full accounting and for more aggressive Congressional oversight is vital. The CIA is still legally authorized to torture detainees under presidential order. At some point, it will also be necessary to set up some kind of truth and justice commission to examine the record, and press charges against the guilty.

Mickey’s on the case. The MSM – surprise! – is snoozing:

Whether or not Bush’s guest worker plan is amended to include eventual citizenship, Rove’s already revealed himself as a social inegalitarian at heart who doesn’t much care.

A reader sends in the following YouTube. It’s the first time I’ve laughed at anything from Saturday Night Live for a very long time.

One little town just got very rich.

A troubling news report.

I should have expected it – since the Stranger is edited by the inimitable Dan Savage. But that magazine’s ombudsman is a hoot and pulls no punches. Here’s an idea: why doesn’t the Washington Post hire Jack Shafer as its ombudsman? I’d read that column religiously.

Seattle, Washington, 3.20 pm.

"The idea that we’re now supposed to spend the time between today and Iowa having a debate about whether or not Clinton backed a pre-emptive military attack on Iraq is a little bit insane. The war occurred, it occurred with her support, and it was a pre-emptive war. I don’t think this is a difficult question," – Matt Yglesias.