There's snowboarding tonight on the Winter Olympics.

Condolences to Marie Osmond and her family. Her 18 year old son Michael Blosil died in LA last night. There are unconfirmed reports he jumped from his apartment building. He had long suffered from depression.

The tsunami warning for Hawaii has been lifted. The death toll in Chile has passed 200. The only remaining warnings are in Russia and Japan.

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More curling at the Olympics. Jeralyn has the hammer now for posting the rest of the day.

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Update 5:30 MT (Jeralyn): Just got back from court, I'll check the news and if anything happened, I'll be posting tonight, and have an open thread. Thanks, BTD!

Our morning open thread is full, BTD and I are still busy at our respective day jobs. Here's another open thread, all topics welcome.

Very busy today for me.

Health summit ongoing. Have no idea what is happening.

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Congrats to the TL kid who just got a not guilty verdict for a client on all charges in a domestic violence case. He's so excited, the jury came back a few minutes ago. His client testified and said he acted in self-defense.

American Idol showcases the 12 male finalists tonight. Tomorrow night, the results are announced. And, the Olympics are ongoing. Lindsay Vonn broke her finger today.

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Via Kevin Drum, I took this Millenials Quiz. My score was 11, which apparently just barely keeps me out of being a Greatest Generational. In reality, I am barely a Baby Boomer, on the other side.

I think it is because I don't Facebook, Twitter or IM and I don't have tattoos. But I haven't figured it out yet.

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In the Olympics, the curling action continues.

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There's the Olympics. And on the Bachelor, Women Tell All Nothing. Also, 24 and Life Unexpected.

The Center for Constitutional Rights has obtained new FOIA documents showing Congress knew much more about the CIA's secret rendition program and torture than previously disclosed. The new documents also highlight the role of Dick Cheney counsel Richard Addington. For example, a newly obtained February 4, 2003, CIA memo documents the role of Counsel for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) in analyzing and approving the CIA techniques. CCR says:

“Members of Congress must come clean about whether they encouraged or objected to torture during these many secret meetings with CIA officials and we need a complete accounting of Cheney’s counsel, David Addington’s, role in the creation of the torture program. These new documents show that the CIA may have lied to Congress about the role of interrogation techniques in detainee deaths and key members of Congress abdicated their oversight role. This new information points even more strongly to the need for a full criminal investigation of the torture program, up the entire chain of command.”

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Are you watching the Olympics?

Figure skating: original dance; speed skating: women's 1500m Gold Medal final; freestyle skiing: men's ski cross Gold Medal final; skiing: men's super combined Gold Medal final; bobsled: two-man Gold Medal final.

What about NBC and the time delays? It's catching some criticism. Here's NBC's reasoning:

NBC has stuck to the longtime Olympic TV plan: Hold the best action until prime time, when viewership is biggest. Naturally, people can find out the results long before that footage airs. But NBC has exclusive rights to the footage before it airs, so it knows you won't see it until it shows it.

Or are you watching Jeff and Jordan in Chile on the Amazing Race, Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters? Something else?

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Update: Apolo Ohno sets Winter U.S. Olympic history with his 7th medal. He took bronze in the short-track 1,000-meter final.

Tonight at the Olympics: Watch Lindsay Vonn take bronze in the Super G.

Plus U.S. speedsters (live ET/CT) on tracks both short and long compete, as Apolo Ohno goes for a record-breaking seventh Winter Olympic medal (1000m) and Shani Davis tries for a second gold medal of the weekFeatured coverage includes Lindsey Vonn in the super-G, U.S. speedsters (live ET/CT) on tracks both short (Apolo Ohno, 1000m) and long (Shani Davis, 1500m).

It's cold and snowy here, not a good night to go anywhere. Instead I'm reading mounds of discovery with a fire going and the Olympics on in the background. What's on your agenda this weekend?

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More Olympics tonight? It starts with ski-jumping.

Snowboarder Scotty Lago, winner of the Bronze medal in the Snowboard half-pipe, has voluntarily left the Olympics after photos of him inappropriately using his medal last night surfaced online.

What are you looking forward to watching tonight?

In other news:

• Insanity defense likely for the Alabama professor. The state says it's ready for it.
• FBI is undertaking a criminal investigation into a Pennsylvania school that gave students laptops with webcams and then watched them while they were at home.
• Some analysis of the OPR Torture report. The ACLU calls for an expanded criminal investigation.

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Who's watching the Olympics? Women's snowboarding half-pipe finals are tonight. There's also women's downhill skiing.

Who's watching Survivor?

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