The Judiciary Committee meets. So it goes.

As one of the few Pinkers who got through the Capitol cop dragnet outside of the House Judiciary Hearing today, I felt I should describe this scene. The Judiciary committee met today to revisit the infamous "Torture Memos" written by John Yoo and David Addington. This is the one with the quote about how it's okay up until pain "equivalent to organ failure." (I don't know how they quite figure that one. When you torture a subject, do you regularly check in: "so, do you feel like one of your