I'm afraid this site is starting to read like one long mash note to conservative blogger John Cole, but what to do? Pretend he's not producing some of the most serious, incisive commentary in all of Blogdom (and beyond, frankly) on the prisoner abuse scandal? I can't very well do that because, you know, he is. And I can't simply ignore it, either; that wouldn't be fair to you. (Though it's interesting to note how few of John's fellow conservatives seem to share that concern for their readers.) So I guess that's a risk I'll just have to take, huh?

Anyway, enough with the vamping already. Here's John.