And the air hangs heavy like a blogwatch wine…

Balkinization: What the administration won’t say about waterboarding. (There’s a lot of stuff there about the implications of the McCain/Bush compromise for habeas corpus, too, but I haven’t sorted through it yet. Scroll down for that.)

Cinecon on Visconti’s Death in Venice, and other DIVa-ish thoughts.

YouTube in the womb. (Via Amy Welborn.)