Christians who support torture, actors who support torture, and a few thoughts on All Hands on Deck after the jump.

• A Pew Center survey found that 62% of "white evangelical protestants" support torture. David Sessions at Patrol magazine has some thoughts on this: "Christianity has just as much emphasis–if not more–on justice as mercy, and its personal commands to be mercifiul do not necessarily apply to states and governments. Thus, churchgoers tend to have more binary understandings of good and evil, and are less squeamish about what they perceive to be justice." I'm withholding judgment until Pew can come up with a decent sample size. In this case, they polled only 174 "white evangelical protestants."
• Speaking of torture: Idiot child Bradley Whitford (the villain from Happy Gilmore Billy Madison!) advocates for the waterboading of Dick Cheney in a (satirical?) HuffPo piece. There's no shortage of evil things one could say about Hollywood activists: They can't seem to shut the fuck up once they realize they're allowed to vote, they shamelessly "testify" in front of Congress and cite made-for-tv movies as experience, and they preach about the environment while simultaneously lear-jetting back and forth between the lavish wasteful parties they both throw and attend. That said, it's kind of refreshing to see Whitford undermine his own fierce objections to torture by calling for it to be done to someone he doesn't like.
• On Wednesday Jason Cherkis posted the results of last weekend's All Hands on Deck initiative: 377 arrests. As you go about your day–saying hi to your friends at your stable, well-paying office job, collecting your paycheck, thinking about how far you've come since graduating from college–just remember that every one of those 377 arrests that was related to drugs equals one more person who will never be able to borrow a Stafford loan, one more person who will find it very difficult to land even the most menial of jobs, one more person for whom crime will make more sense that trying to succeed in the way that many of you succeed. If those thoughts tug at your conscience even a little bit, then do something.

Have a good weekend.

• Charles Homans reported on the death of local conservative web venture Culture 11 for Washington Monthly. Homans' initial impression is spot-on, and one that conservative sites, by their prudish nature, can't help but cultivate: "On its surface, the softly launched beta (test) version of Culture11 hewed closely to the original vision, down to its Slateish design. Poking around the site was a bit like wandering into the Christian rock section of a record store: the bands were recognizably bands, with electric guitars and vaguely countercultural clothing, but there was something … different about them, the musicians just a little too healthy looking to be real rock stars." I tossed my two cents on conservative culture writing into murky waters a few months back. David Sessions at Patrol has a great response to Homans' piece, in which Culture 11's Joe Carter makes a CONSERVATIVES GONE WILD appearance in the comments.
• You know how all those political types have been frothing at the mouth about the AIG bonuses/Wall Street sodomizing Main Street/Etc.? WCP alumnus Dave Jamieson calls them on their bullshit in a fantastic TNR piece: "Last week, lawmakers dashed to the podiums of Capitol Hill to condemn AIG and the rest of those bonus-loving scoundrels on Wall Street. But not long before that, some of those same members had been dashing to fundraisers with the very financial bogeymen they were now skewering." Charlie Rangel? Crook. Chris Dodd? Douche hat. Carolyn Maloney? into Wall Street for big bucks. Don't trust a one of 'em.
• Why does William Saletan talk about Lady Parts all the time? Because they matter: "The reason I keep you posted on developments in IVF, surrogates, and embryo screening is that they're transforming the debate. They're changing the conditions on which our moral positions rely. Were you pro-choice because the embryo was in a woman? Now we have embryos in dishes. Did you support embryo screening for fatal diseases? Now we're talking about screening embryos for eye color. Does the value of an embryo depend on what its mother thinks? Now we have embryos with two mothers: a genetic one and a gestational one. Should they at least consult each other?"

That's it for me, folks. Enjoy your weekend.