If you’re returning from vacation, we’re glad to have you back! Check around and you’ll see we’re already in 2010 progress . . . Ed Whelan on the Prop 8 show trial in California . . . Andy McCarthy on the detainee scandal . . . Bob Costa talks to Jim Woolsey about the CIA & Mutallab . . . Conrad Black on Obama’s “awful” first year . . . Jay Nordlinger files his first Impromptus of the year . . . and more . . . plus: Steyn from the weekend. Krauthammer from Friday. Catch up on anything you might have missed here. There was and is more, but that’s a start at catching up.