Event: Quick Political Note.

Write your senators (especially if they happen to be on the Judiciary Community) and tell them that they'd better either hear Mukasey declare that waterboarding is torture, or vote the cut off a confirmation hearing.

There are a few political issues in our lives that ought to be emphatic and unambiguous. Torture is one, and a simulated drowning is torture. Period. Mukasey needn't access a security brief to know that.