Blogging Heads Has anyone else seen this site for warring bloggers on video? This particular debate involves my old New Republic colleagues—well, they were both far more senior than I, but never mind—Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus arguing about torture. Both of whom, apparently, have iMacs with iSight, perhaps built-in.

(There—obligatory Apple plug out of the way. When are those guys going to start paying me?)

Bob and Mickey are arguing about torture, and while the debate is kind of hit-and-miss—Mickey, who's pro-torture, is a very smart guy, but Bob Wright, anti-torture, is scary-smart—the phenomenon of the video debate is perhaps more interesting and probably ultimately more important. Torture is an issue that's really been propelled to the forefront of American politics by two things: 1) John McCain and 2) the blogosphere. So just as the v-blog was inevitable, I suppose the Internet version of the McLaughlin Group was equally fated. It's pretty cool, really. This is the democratizing power of the Net at its finest....  ¶ 7:30 PM