Place yer bets!

Almost alone among generally lefty media outlets, TAPPED isn't coming out with a knee-jerk anti attitude toward DARPA's now-cancelled FutureMAP program. As TAPPED points out, "Though the terrorism futures market sounds grotesque -- and the notion of betting for or against future terrorist attacks is undeniably macabre in conception -- it's simply a tool." (At Eschaton, too.)

The question we need to be asking is not "Is this unseemly?" but rather, "Does it work?"

UPDATE: Here's how newsfutures.com is looking at this story. (They're a site that does much the same thing, only without getting yelled at by the Senate.)