Oh, nice work, Philly Inquirer. At a time when 1.) you’re struggling to survive, and 2.) there are *plenty* of well-qualified journalists on the job market, you hire one of the most polarizing figures in recent political history. Well played.

“As you may already know, the all-but-late and once-great Philadelphia Inquirer has, as of Sunday, enlisted a new regular monthly columnist to its stable, a man named John Yoo. Now, if you’ve been paying any attention to national events over the last few years, you’ll know that Yoo authored the Bush Administration’s Torture Memo, which ushered in an era of war crimes that still haunts this country, and the size and scope of which we may not ever truly know.” (via lineara)