We watched Control Room last night at the Ken. Thought it was a great look at the media, exposing biases on both sides of the world.

I should really learn to sandboard.

Nice: GOP avoiding investigation of prisoner abuse

Al-Qaida may ‘reward’ American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office. A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America’s counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an “avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked” war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden’s hands.

Did Bush know Cheney had given orders to down airliners on September 11? The commission staff wonders and remains at odds with both men over alleged Saddam-Al Qaeda ties.