Waterboarding, we hardly knew ya

On a more serious note, here's a great article by Andy McCarthy (courtesy of National Review Online) on what should be - but probably won't be - the end of the"torture" controversy.

Personally, any qualms I had about the use of what NKVD used to call "French wrestling" against Al-Quaida operatives magically evaporated after watching the last moments of Danny Pearl's life... but I'm sure that's just another example of my outdated, "us vs. them" mentality...