The question of torture, and specifically the possible use of torture to establish a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, has been drowned out by the Washington drama of what Nancy Pelosi knew and when.

The FTC may have been asleep for the Bernie Madoff scandal, but they’re on to something big now: Readers of Adventures in Babywearing, a blog for parents, got an up-close look at the Ergo, a $135 embroidered baby carrier in a shade called “organic blue” in a May 14 post on the site.

Iran, Israel, Palestine fall within his portfolio.

The discrepancy over whether an appropriations staffer attended a particular briefing or not may be no big deal. Or it may be a very big deal.

• Can someone ‘splain what the hell we’re doing in Afghanistan? 
• End the war.
• MC Steele talks, RNC members snooze.
• But…but…everyone’s “pro-life” now.
• Good news on The Lion.
• Obama’s gonna take your guns away!
• Can something be done about Harry Reid?
• Kaleefornya: still ungovernable.
• A pretty lonely religion. 
• I’ll take a grande mocha and some union busting.

Important evolution finding, sort of ruined by alleged journalism, snark.

B. B. King – Let The Good Times Roll.

For LooHoo, who worked her last shift today before retiring and for Norske who retires at the end of the month -  let the good times roll.

What’s on your mind tonight?

image by watertigerNewt Gingrich’s ideas are intriguing to the Republican Party, and they would like to subscribe to his newsletter. Newt Gingrich has joined Eric Cantor’s new effort to remake the GOP for the future, a Cantor spokesperson confirms.“Speaker Gingrich will be joining the National Council for a New America as one of the members of our national panel of experts,” Cantor spokesperson Joe Pounder tells me, confirming a

Olbermann tonight:

And journalist Marcy Wheeler points out, according to the CIA Congressman Porter Goss got a briefing on March 8, 2005, even though he was not only no longer a congressman at the time, he was the Director of the CIA.

Thanks for the h/t Keith, and in that same spirit, we would like to acknowledge William Ockham who pointed that out in Marcy’s comments.

I. Am. Not. Making. This. Shit. Up.