- Glenn Greenwald on what all Americans should know about the 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report that was released on Monday. * Alex Tabarrok (the more doctrinaire libertarian half of the team at Marginal Revolution) explains why you must have a public option if health care reform will include an individual mandate. Further proof that I was completely wrong in arguing that the public option is not necessary. * Spencer Ackerman explains the insidiousness of torture – once you’ve embarked on a program of torture, the logical response to not getting the information you expect is to order more torture. * If you’re trying to embed Google Maps in your Web site and want to start with a centered map of the United States, Lebanon, Kansas is the spot. * Today I was trying to come up with good ways to avoid mixing JavaScript code with PHP code. Here’s a Stack Overflow question on the topic. I almost wonder whether using AJAX is better than writing PHP that emits JavaScript.