I *Really* Didn't Want to Learn That

Kevin Drum points out that Andrew Sullivan's blog "has become a must read for anyone who cares about the torture scandal."

I'm currently letting a half-outlined essay on Americans and torture bubble and stew on my mind's back burner. (Its perhaps too-cute working title is "The Shadow of the Torturer" because its thesis is that there is a torturer in America's collective Shadow, in the Jungian sense of the word.) I'm very interested in any new carrots and potatoes to throw into the pot. So I checked Sullivan's blog, and goddammit, Kevin is right. I'm going to go back there regularly and keep reading it. Crap.

Sullivan also has a crackerjack essay in the New York Times Book Review which is as good a summary as I've seen of the story so far.