Torture & Detainment: Issues That Won't Go Away

Torture and detention of Iraqi prisoners/terrorism detainess by the U.S. is an issue that won't go away (and it's today's top phrase at BlogPulse). It's returned today in several forms, including new 2004 photos of Abu Ghraib prison abuse released by Australian news sources and Salon.com (today's No. 2 top news story), a United Nations finding against the U.S. detainment policies at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and more recent photos of what's going on at Abu Ghraib by the Black Five military blog.Reactions range from lingering disgust to questions about media double standards.

Knitting Olympics update:
If you want to see what those Olympic knitters are up to, the Yarnharlot blog (today's No. 8 top blog post) provides updates of the thousands of participants who are knitting to their hearts' delight while the 2006 Winter Olympics take place in Italy -- from their kickoff knitting parties to the progress of their projects.

What do we call this Cheney thing?
The media is still actively dissecting Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident (Cheney remains the most-blogged-about person), but apparently so are Republican punidts who are discussing a possible Cheney replacement if DC can't survive the fallout of shooting a 78-year-old lawyer in the face and chest. Who might it be? bloggers ask. BlogPulse prediction: sometime between now and June, the VP will resign "for health reasons." (Remind me to check back).

What's your favorite Olympic sport?
What are Olympic watchers watching? As the wife of a northern Minnesotan (ya, sure, you betcha), you can guess that curling has been big on our list. But a BlogPulse trend graph shows overall sports buzz: