Sometimes, if you procrastinate, things get done without you. Or you decide that since other people have already done them better than you why reinvent the wheel?

I have been trying to find a way to write about torture, and the latest attempt by the Administration to define it out of existence. I always am stopped by the fact that this is America we're talking about, an American president is doing this, weren't we supposed to be one of the good guys? Didn't we used to point to torture as evidence of despotism? How the hell did we get here? So I haven't actually gotten around to posting on torture.

Over at Making Light Teresa Nielsen-Hayden and Jim MacDonald have this one covered. Like all Making Light posts, there is much substance in the comments as well as in the posts themselves. (Making Light has the best signal to noise ratio of just about any blog around.) And Terry Karney, both in the comments to the Making Light posts and over at Better than Salt Money, brings his perspective as a professional in the field to bear (and performing the valuable public service of watching the Bush press conference so we didn't have to).

I also wanted to write about how the goal of terrorism is not to kill people but to terrify them, and how the Administration is helping the terrorists win. Fred over at Slacktivist took care of that one. Cool. And Dave Neiwert at Orcinus has a fascinating post about the symbiotic relationship between George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden.

Okay, then. I could write about these things, but as I said, why reinvent the wheel when these people have engineered a car?