Some light weekend reading

Scalzi on moral relativism.

The United States shouldn't be torturing anyone. Not because we have an inappropriate allegiance to the Geneva Conventions, but because we're the United States, and we're better than that. The old saw says that morality is what you do when no one else is looking; on a national scale, morality is what you do even when there's no treaty.

Good point, and it's sad that it needed to be said in the first place.

And, The New Republic reexamines its support for the Iraq war. (And their conclusion isn't quite what you might expect.)