I despair of my people

WaPo has a story on a new Science result presented at the AAAS meeting about evidence for liquid water on Mars

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter info at JPL

This is the image.

This is the most viewed photo today on the WaPo website

Laura Bush's redecorations in the White House.
UPDATE: WaPo promoted the Mars result and bumped the decor (so 3 o'clock, you know) on the web site. Yay.

PS: Actual Science story with links to article etc (subscription)

Eurekalert press release

Details at NASA

The Big Picture - click through for hi-res